Samba MSDFS and tree structure problem

[Shirish Kalele]

Hi,

Samba doesn't handle dfs links in subdirectories of dfs roots as yet. It
shouldn't be very difficult to do, and I've been meaning to do it, but
have been distracted with other stuff. Look for it in the next release.

- Shirish

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, [iso-8859-2] Michal Ambroz wrote:

>   Hello,
>   please was there anyone successfull on making ms-dfs links in
>directories in ms-dfs root directory? Situation is this, I have some
>hierarchical structure in ms-dfs.
>
>/
> |... ORG1               -> \\server1\org1_share
> |... ORG2               -> \\server2\org2_share
> |... ORG3/
> |        |... DIVISION1 -> \\server1\org3_div1_share
> |        |... DIVISION2 -> \\server3\org3_div2_share
> |... ORG4               -> \\server4\org4_share
>
>
>    I am able to set properly links in directory of dfs-root (ORG1,
>ORG2, ORG4) without problems and it is working on WinXX, Win NT, Win
>2000. But links in ORG3 directory are not working.
>
>
>    I have followed the debug logs and it seems that when it cames to
>windows to see what is in directory of ORG3 samba correctly detects
>that DIVISION1 and DIVISION2 are not common files, but dfs links and
>it masquerades them as directories. But when you try to enter that
>directory, it is treated as common unix file (nonexisting) and it
>ends with and error "Wrong disc or directory
>(\\DFSServer\dfsroot\ORG3\DIVISION1)".
>
>    Please has anyone faced this problem? Have you any hint where to
>look for and posibly which function has to be hacked and how?
>
>                            thank you very much
>
>                                        Michal Ambroz
>(O_O)
>
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