[Samba] DFS redirection to sub-folders beyond share

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Jeremy Allison wrote:

>> Users\testuser which is mapped in DFS to
>> \\fileserver1\share\Users\testuser
>> <file:///\\fileserver1\share\Users\testuser> , which works easily in
>> windows to seamless take the user who access \\domain\dfs\users\testuser
>> <file:///\\domain\dfs\users\testuser>  to the folder
>> \\fileserver1\share\users\testuser
>> <file:///\\fileserver1\share\users\testuser> .
>>
>> This does NOT work under smbclient.  I think that we just need to be
>> able to map users to something beyond the actual share.  It looks like
>> it could be fixed by modifying the code to handle the slashes correctly
>> (see the error below).  Here is the log from smbclient with the -d 3
>> debugging option:
> 
> What would help to get this fixed is a simple example of this
> expressed as a set of Samba server-side DFS symlinks, so I can try and
> reproduce this.

If I understand you correctly, Windows is just doing a tcon&X and the
changing to the directory.  Smbclient is not performing those extra
steps for you.  Nor will some older Microsoft clients (such as NT4 I
expect).







cheers, jerry
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