Alias and local shares

Hi,

I have to recreate our whole build farm on one server for a recovery
project. I've done this before on Windows 2000 Adv Server with no problems
but I just can't get it to work on Windows Server 2003.

Basically what I did was add the aliases for all our build servers into the
hosts file of one server.
I can ping all the aliases and they all return 127.0.0.1. So far so good.

Now comes the problem.
I can get to \\<servername> and \\127.0.0.1 but whenever I attempt to
connect to \\<aliasname> I get prompted for username/password and nothing
works.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

I just figured it out...

I had to disable the loopbackcheck:

Method 1: Disable the loopback check
Follow these steps: 1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click
OK.
2. In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry
key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Lsa
3. Right-click Lsa, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4. Type DisableLoopbackCheck, and then press ENTER.
5. Right-click DisableLoopbackCheck, and then click Modify.
6. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
7. Quit Registry Editor, and then restart your computer.


"Mike Kapos" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> I have to recreate our whole build farm on one server for a recovery
> project. I've done this before on Windows 2000 Adv Server with no problems
> but I just can't get it to work on Windows Server 2003.
>
> Basically what I did was add the aliases for all our build servers into
> the hosts file of one server.
> I can ping all the aliases and they all return 127.0.0.1. So far so good.
>
> Now comes the problem.
> I can get to \\<servername> and \\127.0.0.1 but whenever I attempt to
> connect to \\<aliasname> I get prompted for username/password and nothing
> works.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>