I administer over 30 servers and I need a way to map them to one view pane so that I can view, add, edit and otherwise manage data on these drives. I know that I can map drives but I obviously cannot map that many and most servers have at least 2 logical partitions. Thank you, Leto the just

The MMC console will only let you look at one server at a time in terms of its net shares.Create your own custom console and add the computer managment icon for each server. This would at least allow you to view the services/functions etc on each server/computer and thus view there net shares. Go to run type mmc and add the computer mangment snap in for all desired machines. MCSE MCSA:messaging MCP MCTS CSSA ITILv2 CCNA VCP3

No, I don't need to manage the drive. I need to have them all in one place. For example, say I wanted to search all 30+ servers for that damned advpack.log file, now I have to login to each server. It would be so much more convenient if I could simply search one great big logical drive space. Thank you, Leto the just

You could use DFS to make them all appear under one shared folder. This would mean having to map only a single drive. Look up DFS on MS's web site.

The you need all drives to part of a contiguous name space or span. The only way to do that with the setup you have is to use a DFS as already mentioned above. If your change managment allows you to implement that then that is an option. otherwise the solution i already mentioned would at least allow you to view all servers from one console without having to log on to each one although you cannot use the search function from a net share. MCSE MCSA:messaging MCP MCTS CSSA ITILv2 CCNA VCP3

Are there any possible issues from adding 30+ citrix servers to DFS? Thank you, Leto the just

Not that i could foresee. Disk space is disk space irrespective of the medium used to attach it. DFS simply allows you create a robust and redundant file structure. Citrix is purely a medium to access a streaming desktop over RDP.This has no correlation to a file structure per se and although is a solution seems a bit radical just to make it easier for you to view multiple fire shares. I would suggest reading some white papers on DFS if your interested in setting it up. MCSE MCSA:messaging MCP MCTS CSSA ITILv2 CCNA VCP3