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Ice
Asked: 2010-03-29 07:53:14 +0800 CST

An alias (defined as a hosts entry) for a fileserver works only when it is a win2008-box, why?

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On a Terminalserver (win2008), we like to have an alias for the real fileservername and therefor we put a line in hosts like:

  • 192.168.0.10 BigFiler

This only works fine for Fileserver under windows 2008 not for win2003-servers, why?

We do not have defined a CNAME alias that is created in the DNS zone!

windows-server-2008 windows-server-2003 hosts

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  1. Best Answer

    Without more details in your question, I'm assuming you have this issue:

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281308

    Which basically means that the W2K3 server isn't listening for requests to the alias name.

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