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Disk Sharing - Server 2016 Cluster

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I'm sure this is probably a newbie question, but it is so hard to find information.

A person would think the ability to do this would be the most fundamental idea in failover clustering.

I have Failover Clustering set up, everything seems to be working fine. Also have SQL server (2017) clustering set up and everything seems to be working fine. I am able to run SQL queries, etc. from both nodes and a different computer.

The problem is support files. We have spreadsheets and document templates that users need to be able to access. I try to put them on the cluster nodes, but I cannot "Share" any of the folders in Active Directory

The File Server role is installed on both nodes (I call them SQL2 and SQL3). The drive I wish to share is listed in the Failover Cluster Manager as "Available Storage".

I put the drive in maintenance mode, and was able to share a folder on SQL3, but it seems to be shared only on that node (the path is '\\SQL3\HDrive')

In Computer Management,  on SQL2 , I cannot even see the drive in "Sharing." or in File Manager. But it does show up in Cluster Manager...

How can I get others to see the files if SQL3 goes offline?

Or what am I missing?



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