Renaming a Celerra CIFS Server, while preserving local groups, shares, and file system permissions

EMC | November 24th, 2009

Here are the commands to rename a Celerra CIFS server:

Be sure putty session has a lot of lines of scroll back set so you can scroll up to see previous commands/results

testserv - Original server name

testservnew – new server name

get existing CIFS server data:

> server_cifs server_2

> server_cifs server_3

1. Unjoin the original compname from the domain, type:

server_cifs server_2 -Unjoin compname=testserv,domain=contourds.local,admin=adadmin

2. Delete the compname from the CIFS configuration of the Data Mover, type:

server_cifs server_2 -delete compname=testserv

3. Add the compname back to the CIFS configuration of the Data Mover as a NetBIOS name, type:

server_cifs server_2 -add netbios=testserv,domain=contourds.local,interface=192_168_191_65

4. Rename the NetBIOS server to the new name, type:

server_cifs server_2 -rename -netbios testserv testservnew

5. Delete the renamed NetBIOS name from step 4. from the CIFS configuration of the Data Mover, type:

server_cifs server_2 -delete netbios=testservnew

6. Add the new compname to the CIFS configuration and active directory (AD) domain, type:

server_cifs server_2 -add compname=testservnew,domain=contourds.local,interface=192_168_191_65

7. Join the new compname to the CIFS configuration and active directory (AD) domain, type:

server_cifs server_2 -Join compname=testservnew,domain=contourds.local,admin=adadmin

That's it!