File share and Alias DNS Record

Hi,
In your infrastructure, you may use one or more file servers.
In some situations, you may have on your DNS configuration: 


> Record A:  SRVFILE-005
> Alias record (CNAME): SHARE-CENTER pointing to SRVFILE-005

So that the users should access through \\share-center


On Windows Server 2003, this can cause a small issue. In fact, when users try to access through \\srvfile-005, it works fine, but could not access through \\share-center and got the following error message:

"You were not connected because a duplicate name exists on the network"

To resolve this, 

> Go to your file server and modify / add the following registry key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\lanmanserver\parameters] " DisableStrictNameChecking "=dword:00000001


> Restart Server service

Note: didn’t work on Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003.

Imed.