Mount behavior on W2K3 Standard and Enterprise hosts

[Guest Ralf Kastl]

Hi experts,

 

I'm looking for an official MS document reference (KB, Technet...) where I

could find an explanation about the different NTFS mount behavior on STD and

ENT hosts.

 

STD behavior:

The system will automatically assign the next available drive letter to a

new disk with a NTFS partition on it.

 

ENT behavior:

The system will NOT assign the next available drive letter to such a drive.

Instead, manual intervention to mount that disk is required.

 

I do need this link to explain why the seen behavior is normal.

 

Best regards

Ralf

[Guest Steve Goddard]

RE: Mount behavior on W2K3 Standard and Enterprise hosts

 

I believe the auto mount is turned off in windows 2003 to prevent problems

with disk clusters, where a windows 2000 server would automatically write a

disk signature screwing things up - clustering is not an option in windows

2003 std

 

 

--

Steve G.

MCSA 2003 +M

 

 

"Ralf Kastl" wrote:

> Hi experts,

>

> I'm looking for an official MS document reference (KB, Technet...) where I

> could find an explanation about the different NTFS mount behavior on STD and

> ENT hosts.

>

> STD behavior:

> The system will automatically assign the next available drive letter to a

> new disk with a NTFS partition on it.

>

> ENT behavior:

> The system will NOT assign the next available drive letter to such a drive.

> Instead, manual intervention to mount that disk is required.

>

> I do need this link to explain why the seen behavior is normal.

>

> Best regards

> Ralf

>

[Guest Ralf Kastl]

RE: Mount behavior on W2K3 Standard and Enterprise hosts

 

Hi Steve,

 

finally, I did find a technet article which describes that automount is

diabled by default on W2K3 Enterprise and Datacenter Editions.

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/bdeda920-1f08-4683-9ffb-7b4b50df0b5a1033.mspx

 

Best regards

Ralf

 

"Steve Goddard" wrote:

> I believe the auto mount is turned off in windows 2003 to prevent problems

> with disk clusters, where a windows 2000 server would automatically write a

> disk signature screwing things up - clustering is not an option in windows

> 2003 std

>

>

> --

> Steve G.

> MCSA 2003 +M

>

>

> "Ralf Kastl" wrote:

>

> > Hi experts,

> >

> > I'm looking for an official MS document reference (KB, Technet...) where I

> > could find an explanation about the different NTFS mount behavior on STD and

> > ENT hosts.

> >

> > STD behavior:

> > The system will automatically assign the next available drive letter to a

> > new disk with a NTFS partition on it.

> >

> > ENT behavior:

> > The system will NOT assign the next available drive letter to such a drive.

> > Instead, manual intervention to mount that disk is required.

> >

> > I do need this link to explain why the seen behavior is normal.

> >

> > Best regards

> > Ralf

> >