[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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