Re: What drives should you "see" in Explorer?
- From: "Omar Shafie" <oshafie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:18:02 -0700
This is true, but one useful technique if you just need to browse the drive
from explorer, assuming the physical drive is owned by a virtual server, and
you're logged on as a user with administrative privileges, is to map to the
admin share of that drive on that virtual server.
That is, if NodeA is the active member of the cluster controlling VirtServA
(IP: 192.168.10.11) with disk R, from the passive NodeB, in the Explorer
address bar just type the following:
\\VirtServA\R$
OR
\\192.168.10.11\R$
Of course, this assumes you're not blocking the necessary sharing ports.
"Todd J Heron" wrote:
> MU,
>
> Mike has sent you the article explaining this behavior. I will explain it
> also in plain terms. What you are experiencing is normal cluster behavior.
> Only the active node can access a shared physical disk. Theoretically, if
> more than one disk (shared resource) owner at a time tried to access the
> data at one time, corruption could result therefore this is not allowed
> (this is called a shared-nothing model). Windows Explorer on the passive
> node may or may not "see" resources owned by an active node. If a passive
> node does see a disk which an active node currently owns, this means the
> passive node at one time owned the disk and is simply "remembering" it, but
> when you click on the drive letter you get an error message. Same
> phenomenon occurs with Disk Management MMC. In summary, disk drive letters
> a passive node sees but which an active node controls is actually a bit of
> an illusion because the passive node cannot access a disk controlled by an
> active node node.
>
> --
> Todd J Heron, MCSE
> Windows Server 2003/2000/NT; CCA
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights.
>
>
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