[jcifs] Support for DFS

[Christopher R. Hertel]

"Everitt, Andrew" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I am using jCIFs to try and access a DFS (Distributed File System). When
> I do a listing I only get the items that are in the DFS folder on the DFS
> server and not any of the shares mapped into the DFS. I am using Windows
> 2000sp3 with jCIFs 0.7.3. Does anyone know what might be happening? Can
> anyone else access DFS shares through jCIFs?
> Thanks in advance,
> Andi

Client-side DFS support requires the implementation of two Trans2 calls.
(Well, only one really... the second one is only used to report DFS errors
back to the DFS root server.)  They have not been a priority for jCIFS.  No
one else has asked for this yet.

If you're interested in coding this up, the required calls are documented in
the SNIA doc and there are also some whitepapers on Microsoft's site that
would help.  Samba can do DFS too, so there is some example code...

I don't have time to code this myself or I'd give it a shot.  I've wanted to
play with DFS for a while.

Chris -)-----

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