Hot Swap Share issue

We have a hot swap external SATA hard drive bay attached to one of our
servers. We have network shares set up on our other servers pointing at the
administrative share for the F: drive, which is the drive letter the hot swap
bay utilizes. The problem is, when we change drives, the admin share no
longer works on the other servers, even if we remap the network drive. Any
ideas?

Hi,

The admin shares are setup when the server service starts so if the drive
gets changed while the PC is on the shares won't get created on the new drive
unless you restart the server service (I'm pretty sure this is true) , You
can do this by typing 'net stop server' then 'net start server' probably
wouldn't be the best thing to do on a server if people are using it. Or if
you type 'net share /?' it should tell you how to create a share and then you
could create a little batch file to run after you swap drives

Or i guess you could even just create a new share called something like
'Hello$' which would be hidden but should still be accessable even if you
swap the drive.

Hope this helps

Regards
Paul Mckenna


"Jeremy Becker" wrote:

> We have a hot swap external SATA hard drive bay attached to one of our
> servers. We have network shares set up on our other servers pointing at the
> administrative share for the F: drive, which is the drive letter the hot swap
> bay utilizes. The problem is, when we change drives, the admin share no
> longer works on the other servers, even if we remap the network drive. Any
> ideas?

Why in the world would you be swapping drives? each drive has a unique
signature. you might try cloning from one to another and then perhaps when
you swap the shares will remain the same. But again why swap publicly
accessed drives?

We are swapping the drives because we are using the drives as backup devices.
A hard drive array was too expensive for my company, so we got a one bay
external hot swap device, and we change the hard drive daily to keep a
running backup history.

"Joshua Bolton" wrote:

> Why in the world would you be swapping drives? each drive has a unique
> signature. you might try cloning from one to another and then perhaps when
> you swap the shares will remain the same. But again why swap publicly
> accessed drives?

are you formatting the drive when you insert it again? I suspect its the
Disk Manager signature that is the issue. Any events in event viewer that
could give a clue to the issue?