[Samba] Can't get MSDFS to work, help!

Shirish Kalele kalele at samba.org
Mon May 6 09:11:02 GMT 2002


A network trace between the client and the two server might be very
helpful. 

Also, send your replies CCed to the list as well, so people looking for
the same problem in the future know what to look for.

Thanks,
Shirish

On Mon, 6 May 2002, Pierre Belanger wrote:

>Shirish,
>
>I just tried with a Win 2000 client, it worked. So I'll try
>to figure out what's wrong with my NT4. If you have any clue,
>let me know!!!
>
>Thank you for your help,
>Pierre B.
>
>Shirish Kalele wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Pierre,
>> 
>> I just tried this out here and it works fine. Must be a problem with your
>> setup.
>> 
>> Can you map the smbhost share directly without dfs? Are the dfs symlinks
>> readable by the user on the Unix machine?
>> 
>> It shouldn't matter whether the server name in the dfs link is a netbios
>> or dns name. In the links you have, the last one (ntdb4) is the
>> recommended way.
>> 
>> A glance through a level 10 samba log might give you some clues..
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Shirish
>> 
>> -----Original Message----
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've been trying since the past hours to configure MSDFS using 2.2.4,
>> compiled with --with-msdfs under Solaris but I can't get it to work :(
>> 
>> Here's what I've done, in the smb.conf file, I added the following:
>> 
>> [global]
>> ...
>>         host msdfs = yes
>> ...
>> 
>> [dfs]
>>         path = /export/dfsroot
>>         msdfs root = yes
>> 
>> In the /export/dfsroot I've created all of the following symlinks,
>> there's many cuz nothing was working so I've created all the one
>> 
>>   ntdb1 -> msdfs:smbhost.net.private.com\ntdb
>>   ntdb2 -> msdfs:smbhost.net.private.com\\ntdb
>>   ntdb3 -> msdfs:smbhost\\ntdb
>>   ntdb4 -> msdfs:smbhost\ntdb
>> 
>> I added "netbios name = smbhost" on the remote server.
>> 
>> From my Windows NT4 SP6A client, when I browse the DFS share and
>> click on any of the "ntdb?" directory, it just cd into the directory
>> and nothing else happens. I don't see the files I should see... it
>> doesn't seem to "redirect" the connection on server "smbhost".
>> 
>> Does the "smbhost" in the symlink need to be a netbios name or
>> can it be a fully qualified hostname, like smbhost.net.private.com ?
>> 
>> Does the symlink final "name" need to be "msdfs:smbhost\\ntdb" or
>> "msdfs:smbhost\ntdb" ?
>> 
>> I've rebooted my Windows NT4 SP6A client, I've restarted Samba and
>> the DFS share doesn't seem to work. Any clue?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Pierre B.
>





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