Microsoft Clustering MNS File Share Witness

Helpful cluster commands to manage a two node MS 2003 cluster utilizing a File Share Witness for quorum control.

Configuring a file share witness

To configure the file share witness, follow these steps:

1. Set the MNSFileShare property of MNS quorum resource to the external file share that will act as the file share witness. To do this, run the following command at a command prompt:
   cluster cluster_name resource mns_resource_name /priv MNSFileShare=\\server_name\share_name
2. Move the group that contains the MNS resource. To do this, run the following command at a command prompt:
   cluster cluster_name group mns_resource_group_name /move

To check the file share witness, Simply enter:

1.  cluster cluster_name resource "Majority Node Set" /priv