smb.conf defaults for msdfs parms

[William Marshall]

Unless there is a technical reason why, I think the msdfs parameters 
should default to yes and then the flexibility of dfs is available when 
the admin discovers what he can do.

I realized today how nice the msdfs proxy smb.conf parameter can be to 
administrators. 

For example, say you have share \\server1\sharea, but \\server1 is getting 
full. 

If you have all the msdfs parms setup correctly, you can replace the 
smb,conf path = information with a msdfs proxy = \server2\sharea and your 
windows users will automatically move to the new server.

The problem is the defaults are:
host msdfs = no
msdfs root = no

The reason I want this on by default is if a windows client has connected 
to a share that is not msdfs enabled, it will remember that status until 
the client reboots, so unless you understood the power of samba here and 
you've planned ahead, you can't easily move the share.

Unfortunately, enabling dfs on all shares might not be the same behavior 
as windows. Checking the XP client dfs cache info w/ dfsutil shows all my 
dfs-enabled samba shares appear in the cache, but not standard windows 
shares.

Bill Marshall