[Samba] smbclient dfs-aware? part 2: getting pas dfs junction point?

[werner maes]

update:

I found some people with the same problem as me:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/lab/sw/uwcsesamba.html

Smbclient is not Dfs-aware. This means you can specify \\ntdfs\cs as 
a share, but when you attempt to drill down past the so-called Dfs 
"junction points" you will not get anywhere. In the following example 
this is illustrated. You cannot get to //ntdfs/cs/cse/www using 
smbclient.


% smbclient //ntdfs/cs
Password:
Domain=[CSERESEARCH] OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790] Server=[Windows 
Server 2003 5.2]
smb: \> ls
   .                                   D        0  Thu Oct 16 16:17:54 2003
   ..                                  D        0  Thu Oct 16 16:17:54 2003
   cse                                 D        0  Thu Oct 28 10:25:56 2004
   nt                                  D        0  Wed Feb 25 15:28:09 2004

                 34522 blocks of size 1048576. 29260 blocks available
smb: \> cd cse
smb: \cse\> ls
   .                                   D        0  Thu Oct 28 10:25:56 2004
   ..                                  D        0  Thu Oct 28 10:25:56 2004

   www                                 D        0  Thu Oct 28 10:25:56 2004
   www2                                D        0  Thu Oct 16 16:16:58 2003

                 34522 blocks of size 1048576. 29260 blocks available
smb: \cse\> cd www
smb: \cse\www\> ls
NT_STATUS_PATH_NOT_COVERED listing \cse\www\\*

                 34522 blocks of size 1048576. 29260 blocks available
smb: \cse\www\> q

         hello

a quick question: is the smbclient program a dfs-aware client? can it 
access dfs points on a microsoft dfs server?

kind regards

werner


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