Patent ID: 7418507

Claim:
A system comprising: one or more processing units; a server registry including one or more registered server names of associated network servers; an alias registry including at least one alias server name associated with at least one of the one or more registered server names; a first share from a first consolidated server, wherein the server name of the first share comprises the first share name qualified with the first consolidated server name; a second share from a second consolidated server, wherein the server name of the second share comprises the second share name qualified with the second consolidated server name; and a name resolution module for: receiving a request for a network resource, the request having a server name identifying a requested server and a share name identifying the network resource; determining whether the requested server name is registered; when the requested server is not registered, looking up the requested server name in the alias registry to determine a registered server name; and resolving a request for the share based on a combination of the name of the consolidated server and the share name.