[Samba] Problems with MSDFS

[Gerald Carter]

Sherish maintains the MS-DFS code.  Perhaps he has somethoughts?





cheers, jerry








On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 Gustav.Reutter at wob.ag wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I am working on the installation of an intel-linux-based PDC for 140 
> users. The clients are NT4-SP6a and W2K-SP2.
> The old server was configured similarly, but for only 40 users as a department server. Now the new server must handle the whole company. My plan was to switch all users to the new 
> PDC without copying all the data. The data should be copied once 
> everything else is working correctly. To enable access to the data while 
> it is still on the old server I wanted to use MSDFS. On first sight it 
> seems working ok. But there are very strange phenomena. NT4-clients are 
> not able to create directories in the dfs-root-share. It is not a matter 
> of setting correct privileges, because creating files is possible. The 
> message window says something like "...file not found ..." I could see the original message only in German: "Das System kann die Datei nicht finden!" Another phenomenon is 
> that after a while either NT4- or W2K-clients see "fata morganas" in the 
> DFS-tree. Directory contents duplicate themselves into sub-directories. 
> Fortunately, we had only one "accident" when a colleague tried to "clean 
> up" a directory and deleted everything.
> Anticipating your question: Yes, we had a backup and we could restore it! 
> :-)))
> 
> Does anyone recognize this problem with MSDFS?
> 
> Gustav Reutter
> 
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