Moving shares between servers, maintain security

1. On the the source server: START > RUN > REGEDT32
2. Go to the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/LanmanServer/Shares

3. From the Registry menu, select Export Registry file.
4. Copy the file to the target server
5. On the target server: START > RUN > Name of the exported registry file> OK
6. Reboot the target server.
7. Go into your target server’s share management, and edit the share to point to the target server’s location for the individual shares.

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Scott Kuhn