[Samba] msdfs root -- client error "refers to a locationthatisunavailable"

[TEXIER David]

Hi,

I found one of my problems (it solved my problem on a computer that never 
had seen the Windows domain).

It's a name resoltution problem , the dfs links are pointing to 
\\Data\xxxxx...

I have to put :

A.B.C.D  Data  #PRE

in the lmhosts file of my Windows XP client (A.B.C.D is the ip address of 
the Data computer).

and then it's working

(I first forget to put #PRE ans it was not working).

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson at acm.org>
To: "TEXIER David" <d.texier at galitt.com>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 11:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] msdfs root -- client error "refers to a 
locationthatisunavailable"


> On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, TEXIER David wrote:
>
>> If a take the same XP client connected via a ssh connection ( i use the
>> port forwarding option for the samba port 139) then i can't access the
>> dfs root (though i can reach the shares with no problem) and on the
>> Windows explorer, the dfs links are no more recognised as dfs folders and
>> i can't connect .
> [...]
>> Your problem and mine is something around there.
>
> There seems to be some undefined set of circumstances which a Windows
> client requires to be aligned before considering a server a DFS root :(...
>
> At this point I guess I'm going to have to let the Windows guys serve up
> the DFS root, as I've had no luck getting the samba server working.
>
>
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