[Samba] msdfs samba client - Linux CIFS Client
Ralf Gross
Ralf-Lists at RalfGross.de
Thu Jan 16 09:53:01 GMT 2003
Hello,
my company recently changed the stucture of some shares (Win2000). Since
then, we are not able to access these shares from Linux/Solaris anymore.
I tried smbmount and smbclient and can access the top-level directory of
the share and see the directory structure, but I can't see any data inside
these directories.
A few days ago, someone told me that msdfs is used for the new structure
of these fileservers. As far as I know, smbclient and smbmount doesn't
support msdfs with redirects, so I tried the Linux Kernel patch for the
Linux cifs client (http://de.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html).
I successfully patched the kernel (debian 2.4.19), installed the modules
and placed mount.cifs under /bin. I'm able to mount my home share from one
server (no msdfs).
mount -t cifs //server/uid$ /mnt -o
username=uid,domain=domain,pass=pass,unc=//server/uid$
But I get an error if I try to mount the msdfs share.
mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt -o
username=uid,domain=domain,pass=pass,unc=//server/share
mount: Not a directory
Here is a trace I did with ethereal (without details).
Src Dst P Info
client server SMB Negotiate Protocol Request
server client SMB Negotiate Protocol Response
client server SMB Session Setup AndX Request, User: domain\uid
server client SMB Session Setup AndX Response
client server SMB Tree Connect AndX Request, Path: \\server\share server
client SMB Tree Connect AndX Response
client server SMB Transaction2 Request QUERY_FS_INFORMATION
server client SMB Transaction2 Response QUERY_FS_INFORMATION
client server SMB Transaction2 Request QUERY_FS_INFORMATION
server client SMB Transaction2 Response QUERY_FS_INFORMATION
client server SMB Transaction2 Request QUERY_PATH_INFORMATION, Path:
server client SMB Transaction2 Response QUERY_PATH_INFORMATION, Error:
STATUS_PATH_NOT_COVERED
client server SMB Tree Connect AndX Request, Path: \\server\IPC$
server client SMB Tree Connect AndX Response
client server SMB Transaction2 Request GET_DFS_REFERRAL, File:
\\server\share
server client SMB Transaction2 Response GET_DFS_REFERRAL
client server SMB Tree Disconnect Request
server client SMB Tree Disconnect Response
client server SMB Logoff AndX Request
server client SMB Logoff AndX Response
Is there anything more I could try?
I can't expect much help from the people who are responsible for these
Win2000 servers. Linux/Unix is not a supported OS...
Thanks, Ralf
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