[Samba] msdfs root -- client error "refers to a location that
isunavailable"
John Drescher
drescherjm at gmail.com
Sat Mar 15 00:40:46 GMT 2008
> The linux server never existed as a non-dfs root, and the client had never
> connected to it before. However, on general principle (being Windows) I
> rebooted it anyway with no change. I also attempted to access it from my
> notebook computer, which hadn't even been turned on since before the linux
> server was built, with the same failure result.
>
> As far as I can tell from my research, it just seems that there are some
> fair number of variables that determine whether or not a Windows client
> will consider a share a DFS root, and evidently I'm missing one of them
> 8-/.
>
One other question. Does the path /var/lib/samba/shares/user have any
files other then the dfs links?
John
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