Mac OS X 10.9 following Samba DFS referrals (and possibly 10.76,10.8)

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Sat Aug 17 19:06:26 MDT 2013


On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 06:18:33PM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> It turns out that Mac OS X 10.9 will not follow path-based DFS
> referrals handed out by Samba.
> 
> It turns out that this seems to be because Samba does not actually do
> what Windows does with such things.
> 
> Firstly, Windows adds FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT to all directory
> entries that are DFS junction points in a FIND (FIND FIRST/FIND NEXT)
> response (SMB_FIND_ID_BOTH_DIRECTORY_INFO and others)).
> 
> Secondly, Windows places IO_REPARSE_TAG_DFS in the EA size field for
> reasons known only to MS.
>
> With these two changes, Mac OS X 10.9 will happily follow path-based DFS links.
> 
> (Thanks to George Colley for the hint that allowed me to figure this out.)

Do you have the patch available ? Can you log a bugzilla
bug and we'll get this fixed for 3.6.x and above.

Cheers,

	Jeremy.


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