Disaster Recovery Planning and promoting OD replica to master

[gw1500se]

I am trying to set up my disaster recovery site and am having difficulty during our disaster drills. The main problem is I cannot seem to figure out how to promote the replica to a master in the event of a disaster. During our mock disaster we remove the main site from the internet which means the replica can not longer see the master. I then try to promote the replica to a master which works as far as it goes. The problem is that everything is still pointing to the original master and while users can authenticate they cannot mount their home directories even though they exist on the new master and their home directories were changed to the proper directory.

Can someone give me a link to a cookbook for promoting a replica to a master or can some just post the steps? TIA.

[gw1500se]

I think I need to clarify what I am trying to do. Perhaps the title is a misnomer since it is not really promoting the replica per se that is the problem. My master OD server also has all the user home directories which are shares mounted at login on the local machine. Those home directories are also duplicated on the disaster site replica server. When I promote the replica to a master, I need to change the home directories of the users to mount the share from the newly created master. One would think that simply changing the home directory via Workgroup Manager would be sufficient. Apparently it is not. As I said, when the user tries to log on at the disaster site network, it still tries to mount the home directory from the no longer available original OD master.

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