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Wednesday, 17 June 2009

Network drive mapping to DNS ALIAS DisableStrictNameChecking

On Windows Server 2003 SP1 mapping of network drives to dns alias names may not work if the dns alias name is different to the host name of the server.

This is a feature of the OS to prevent mapping of dns alias names.

This feature can be overridden with the following registry key : HLKM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\parameters\
DisableStrictNameChecking = 1 (DWORD)