[Samba] Help making Samba a DFS host (not root!)

[Brian H. Nelson]

Any word on this? Should I open a bug? I've got my foot in my mouth 
after telling my group that samba supports DFS :-)

Thanks,
-Brian


Brian H. Nelson wrote:
> Jeremy,
>
> Files attached. Let me know if they're not what you need.
>
> Just for fun I tried this with 3.0.28 as well. Same result.
>
> -Brian
>
>
> Jeremy Allison wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 02:33:57PM -0400, Brian H. Nelson wrote:
>>  
>>> I'm trying to create a DFS root in my 2003 AD domain, and point it 
>>> to a share hosted on a Samba server. From the documentation, I had 
>>> assumed that this was supported (msdfs host = yes ?). Am I missing 
>>> something basic? This is with Samba 3.0.31 on RHEL 5.
>>>
>>> When I go to create the DFS root (via the msc plugin) and instruct 
>>> it to use my samba machine as the host, I get this error:
>>>
>>> "The computer you entered cannot host the DFS root. You must enter 
>>> the name of a computer running an operating system in the Windows 
>>> 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003 families."
>>>
>>> Just to be clear, I'm NOT trying to make Samba a DFS root, just a 
>>> host (ie target) for a DFS root in my AD domain. Is Samba only 
>>> capable of hosting a samba-based DFS root, and not an AD based one? 
>>> Is there some trick to getting it configured?
>>>     
>>
>> Can you post the network capture trace plus the debug level 10
>> of the smbd you're pointing the MSC plugin at please ?
>>
>> Jeremy.
>>   
>

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