[Samba] DFS question

[William Burns]

Scott:

The approach that you're taking seems reasonable.
The syntax looks good.

If one of the servers goes down for an extended time, the clients that 
authenticated to it might have to logout/login again after their DFS 
cache times out.

-Bill

Scott Mayo wrote:

> Was wondering if someone could tell me if this is correct.  I want to 
> set up some DFS shares.  I have 3 servers with SAMBA/LDAP on them.  My 
> first is basically my PDC and the other two are my BDCs.  I assume 
> that I will have to set all of this up on each server, so that no 
> matter which server catches the logon, the logon script will get run.  
> Also, if one of the servers was to go down for a bit, the other two 
> could still handle logons and some of the directories would be available.
>
> Each server has:
>
> Need to add these to samba:
>
> [global]
>     host msdfs = yes
> [teacher]
>     path = /export/teachers
>     msdfs root = yes
>
> [student]
>     path = /export/students
>     msdfs root = yes
>
>
> Create these directories and add the links in each like so (shares are 
> already there):
>
> /export/teachers
> ln -s msdfs:bes-serve\\bes elemstudents
> ln -s msdfs:bms-serve\\bms midstudents
> ln -s msdfs:bhs-serve\\bhs highstudents
> ln -s msdfs:bes-serve\\teachpublic teacherspublic
> ln -s msdfs:bes-serve\\lemburg lemburger
> ln -s msdfs:bes-serve\\school elemteachers
> ln -s msdfs:bms-serve\\school midteachers
> ln -s msdfs:bhs-serve\\school highteachers
>
> /export/students
> ln -s msdfs:bes-serve\\bes elemstudents
> ln -s msdfs:bms-serve\\bms midstudents
> ln -s msdfs:bhs-serve\\bhs highstudents
>
> Logonscript would contain:
>
> teacher.bat
> net use T: \\b?s-serve\teacher  (where the ? is either e,m or h 
> depending on which server the script is run)
>
> student.bat
> net use S: \\b?s-serve\student  (where the ? is either e,m or h 
> depending on which server the script is run)
>
> I was just wanting to get confirmation on this before I enter it all 
> on my servers.
> Thanks.
>