Cluster shares disappear after reboot

[davetherave100]

Hi, sorry if this has been covered before but ive searched and found nothing in this forum.

We have this problem, just built a 2 node cluster 2003, and when we set up our shares on the data drive, when this drive fails over the shares do not follow. Permissions do but not the shares.
If we then set up the share again on the second node, the share is ok when failed back. the main problem comes when a server is rebooted and then failed over to. The shares are gone again.

Any ideas?
Thanks for looking

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

Had the same issue with Windows 2003.
Issue one:
Share Resources not shared when cluster group failed over.
We had to add the Local (not Domain) administrators group/full access to all the SHARE permissions for each share resorce (not NTFS Permission). According to Microsoft, the local administrator has to have this right. We propagate the rights to all shares using cacls.exe.
When the shares fail over you will see the rights change from node1\Administrators to node2\Administrators

 

[davetherave100]

Hi, thanks for the help, only thing is that hasnt done the trick for my shares unfortunately.
Added the local admin group, and it doesn indeed change from node1 admin to node2, but we still seem to loose the actual share.
Its only after the reboot. Did you have to share on each node in the first place or just the one?
If i share on both nodes in turn that has the drive, then all is ok swapping over, but the a reboot still kills the share off.
Thanks for your help so far.

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

Were are you creating your shares? From the File system or from within Cluster Administrator. You should be creating shares as managed cluster resources within a cluster resource group.

 

[rflora]

Hello,

The reason you are losing shares is simply because they're not shared using the Cluster Administrator. When you go to the Cluster Admin, you have to choose to create a new Resource.

Hope this helps.

 

[davetherave100]

Yes i was using file system shares.
Yeah we use cacls for our shares, permissions.
So is there any way to automate the cluster share creation, as i was intending to have home directories shared on a cluster drive. We have about 450, so a long job to set up.
Would it be unusual to have so many resources on a cluster.
Would performance be affected?
Thanks for your time.

 

[davetherave100]

Thanks for the help, all sorted now.
File share resource at top level of data drive, all subfolders automatically shared for home drives, just update security ntfs permissions.

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

There is a better solution to setting up home directory shares. The reason I did this was because there is a limitation to the amount of resources a cluster can manage and if you are setting up user home folders you can run out of resources.

File Server:
U:\Users\%username%\

Cluster Administrator:
-Create a File Share Resource for the Users Directory.
-On the File Share Properties go to the Parameters Tab.
-Click on the "Advanced.." button.
-Choose the Share subdirectories Radio button.

This will share all the user directories under the User File share. All your user home folders will be shared under one cluster resource.

Again, make sure the local admin has full rights under the permissions tab on the Users share.
That should do it...