[Samba] msdfs not working on netbios aliases?

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Roland wrote:
| I encountered strange behaviour of "msdfs"
| when using together with "netbios aliases".
|
....
|  From a windows (XP) machine I can now see:
|
| \\server\share1
| and
| \\server\share2
| where share2 is succesfully redirected as a DFS to \\penguin\share2.
|
| But when trying to connect via the aliased name to
| \\server-oldname\share1
| and
| \\server-oldname\share2
| only share1 is seen correctly.
| share2 gives an error requesting me to check my permissions.
|
| This behaviour however is not entirely persistent.
| After rebboting my client, as long as having only
| one redirect proxy sometimes I can see the aliased
| name correctly.

Do you have 'smb ports = 139' in [global] ?  My guess is that
the client is using port 445 (which does not support
netbios aliases).







cheers, jerry
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