undo msdfs defaults ?

Beschorner Daniel Daniel.Beschorner at facton.com
Tue Jul 4 16:26:43 GMT 2006


>If I explicitly disable both dfs switches in 3.0.23RC3, I can't access my
>shares any longer.
>Maybe that's the reason Jerry has no interest to do so :-)

> that might be a reason ;-) ... but I can't reproduce that here.
> did you turn it off with or without rebooting the windows client after
> that?

> by the way - the fact that a Windows does not recognice that a CIFS 
> server switches from DFS back and forth without a long timeout or a 
> reboot is another good reason for not changing the default.

Thank you, you're right! Rebooting (not just logging off) cures it.
And your objection is right too, we have rarely rebooting clients, terminal
servers, etc.
But turning on doesn't seem to harm the way turning off does.

Daniel


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