[Samba] DFS root in homes possible?

Christoph Kaegi kaph at zhaw.ch
Fri Nov 30 07:43:57 GMT 2007


Can anyone confirm if DFS root in [homes] should
work or not?

Thanks
Chris

On 28.11-12:12, Christoph Kaegi wrote:
> Hi list
> 
> DFS Links in a separate share seems to work, but in the
> [homes] section does not.
> 
> Is this a known problem?
> 
> Samba is 3.0.26a.
> 
> /etc/smb.conf excerpts:
> ---------------------------- 8< ----------------------------
> [global]
>   ...
>   host msdfs = yes
>   ...
> 
> [homes]
>   ...
>   msdfs root = yes
>   ...
> 
> [dfstest]
>   path = /data/dfsroot
>   msdfs root = yes
> 
> ---------------------------- 8< ----------------------------
> 
> DFS Links:
> ---------------------------- 8< ----------------------------
> server# ls -la /data/dfsroot/
> ...
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         21 Nov 26 09:31 test1 -> msdfs:server1\sharename
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         19 Nov 26 09:31 test2 -> msdfs:server2\sharename
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         17 Nov 26 09:31 test3 -> msdfs:server3\sharename
> 
> server# ls -la /home/staff/myaccount/
> ...
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         25 Nov 28 10:22 Pool1  -> msdfs:server1\sharename
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         17 Nov 28 10:22 secure -> msdfs:server2\sharename
> 
> ---------------------------- 8< ----------------------------
> 
> 
> The error on the Windows client is "Network path not found".
> 
> Thanks
> Chris
> 
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Christoph Kaegi                                           kaph at zhaw.ch
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