samba and multiple servers

[James Nord]

check out $src/samba/examples/dce-dfs

James Nord wrote:
> 
> Microsft DFS.
> 
> You can do this in Windows NT + 2k.
> 
> And in samba as the share enter .../computer/share
> IIRC
> 
> I'm not sure about the compile option
> ./compile --with-msdfs
> (or with--dfs - no one did answer my previous question on this)
> 
> Although the clients need to be DFS aware Win 95 is not.
> 
> /James
> 
> Seth Vidal wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >  I've got many servers that act as project spaces for the experimentalist
> > and theorist groups in physics. For the unix side accessing the data is
> > over automounted nfs partitions. This works fine - however when accessing
> > them from samba its VERY slow - mostly b/c its making 2 different network
> > connections - smb to the win machine and then an additional connection
> > over nfs to the automounted file server. So I've been setting up smb
> > servers (via samba of course) on each of the project space machines that
> > need windows access. This works very well and performance is great.
> >
> > however I'd like it if the users didn't have to chase down the machine in
> > the network neighborhood (which is becoming very large).
> >
> > so I was hopping there is someway in samba to have a fileshare point to
> > another fileshare:
> > ie:
> >   They go to \\sambaserver\projectspace1 and that redirects them to
> > \\projectspace1\filespace or whatever.
> >
> > This would seem like a good feature if its possible - it would be similar
> > to a web redirect.
> >
> > Is this already available and I am just ignorant of it or is there another
> > way I'm missing?
> >
> > thanks
> > -sv
> 
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