msdfs, win98/NT and non-resolvable symlink paths

[Shirish Kalele]

This is because smbclient (and smbfs) can not do DFS (yet). This should not
be related to the problem Arjen is seeing..

- SK

----- Original Message -----
From: "werner maes" <werner.maes at cc.kuleuven.ac.be>
To: <samba-technical at samba.org>
Cc: <jerry at samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 7:29 AM
Subject: msdfs, win98/NT and non-resolvable symlink paths


> On 14 Feb 2002, Arjen van Drie wrote:
>
>  > Problem exists with Samba 2.2.2 and 2.2.3a. Tested on RedHat Linux 7.1
>  >
>  > == Problem. ==
>  > > Where Windows2000 clients do, win98 and NT clients do not follow a
msdfs
>  > link. When we open Windows Eplorer, doubleclick on a mounted SMB
network
>  > share and click on one of the maps therein on the _left_ side of
Windows
>  > Explorer, the right side shows up empty. There are files though. From
>  > then on, no matter what route we take to get to the share, the files
>  > remain invisible.
>
>  >We need to figure out why it works for me and why not for you.
>  >Shirish?  Any ideas?
>
> Another test I've done on a Linux server:
>
> [root at ls-cc3-01 /root]# smbclient //localhost/dfs -U werner
> added interface ip=10.33.6.132 bcast=10.33.6.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> Got a positive name query response from 127.0.0.1 ( 127.0.0.1 )
> Password:
> Domain=[PCLAB] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.3a]
> smb: \> ls
>    .                                   D        0  Thu Feb 14 10:11:39
2002
>    ..                                  D        0  Thu Feb 14 10:46:54
2002
>    publiek                             D        0  Thu Feb 14 10:46:54
2002
>
>                  58367 blocks of size 524288. 48102 blocks available
> smb: \> cd publiek
> cd \publiek\: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND
>
> WHAT'S WRONG HERE? Why can't I go to the "publiek" share?
>
> [[root at ls-cc3-01 /root]# ls -al /home/dfs (the dfs share is configured as
> dfs root)
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           20 Feb 14 10:11 .
> drwxr-xr-x   41 root     root         4096 Feb 14 10:46 ..
> lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           23 Feb 14 10:11 publiek ->
> msdfs:ls-cc3-01\publiek
>
> [root at ls-cc3-01 /root]# ls -al /home/publiek/ (publiek is a normal file
share)
> total 4
> drwxrwxrwx    4 root     root           29 Feb 14 10:56 .
> drwxr-xr-x   41 root     root         4096 Feb 14 10:46 ..
> drwxr-xr-x    2 werner   werner          6 Feb 14 10:31 test
> drwxr-xr-x    2 u0000709 u0000709        6 Feb 14 10:55 u0000
>
> smb.conf (necessary parameters):
>
> [dfs]
>          path = /home/dfs
>          msdfs root = Yes
>
> [publiek]
>          path = /home/publiek
>
> Maybe this will help to understand the problem.
>
> Werner Maes
> KULeuven
>