Problem with msdfs and fully qualified referral hostnames
Shirish Kalele
kalele at veritas.com
Fri May 9 23:26:58 GMT 2003
If you specify two targets in the msdfs link, one with a FQDN and one with
a netbios name, do XP and Win9X clients both work?
On Fri, 9 May 2003, John P Janosik wrote:
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>We have run into a problem with msdfs support in Samba 2.2.8a when trying
>to support both win9x and NT/2K/XP clients. We originally set up the msdfs
>symlinks with the netbios names of the servers so that both Win9x and
>NT/2K/XP clients could use our msdfs root. This was OK because the clients
>were set up to use WINS servers that could resolve these names. Now there
>are XP clients at other sites configured to use different or no WINS
>servers that would like to access our msdfs root.
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>I made the following change to allow us to use fully qualified DNS names in
>our msdfs symlinks without breaking Win9x clients. Does anyone see a
>problem with this patch. Could a change like this be added to Samba 3.0?
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>[root at rchsker msdfs]# diff -u msdfs.c.orig msdfs.c
>--- msdfs.c.orig Thu Apr 17 13:35:19 2003
>+++ msdfs.c Fri May 9 14:31:15 2003
>@@ -141,7 +141,24 @@
> *p = '\\';
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> pstrcpy(reflist[i].alternate_path, "\\");
>- pstrcat(reflist[i].alternate_path, alt_path[i]);
>+ if(get_remote_arch() == RA_WIN95) {
>+ /*Only pass the short hostname to older Windows
>clients.
>+ Hopefully this is also the netbios name */
>+ char *r,*q = strchr(alt_path[i],'\\');
>+ if(q == NULL)
>+ return False;
>+ *q = '\0';
>+
>+ r = strchr(alt_path[i],'.');
>+ if(r != NULL)
>+ *r = '\0';
>+
>+ pstrcat(reflist[i].alternate_path, alt_path[i]);
>+ pstrcat(reflist[i].alternate_path, "\\");
>+ pstrcat(reflist[i].alternate_path, q+1);
>+ } else
>+ pstrcat(reflist[i].alternate_path, alt_path[i]);
>+
> reflist[i].proximity = 0;
> reflist[i].ttl = REFERRAL_TTL;
> DEBUG(10, ("parse_symlink: Created alt path: %s\n",
>reflist[i].alternate_path));
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>
>Thanks,
>
>John Janosik
>IBM Global Services SDC Northeast
>Rochester Server Support, AFS/DFS Team
>jpjanosi at us.ibm.com
>
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