I'm configuring a Continuously Available File Share (CAFS) for General Use. What I would like to do is to have the UNC share name different from the local path name. By default, the New Share Wizard wants them to be the same. Basically what I want is this:
Local path: D:\Shares\Share1
Remote path: \\FileServer\SH1
...but the New Share Wizard in the Failover Cluster Manager wants to use the "Share1" name for both the local and remote paths. This is easy enough to do within Windows if you weren't doing CAFS. So my first thought was simply to go into Windows and change the share name. So I did. It let me add a new share name, and delete the old one perfectly fine. Once I did, I modified the properties of the new share name in the Failover Cluster Manager to "Enable Continuous Availability", and everything seemed happy.
Does anyone know, is this the right way to do this? Or is there a better way?