[Samba] msdfs root -- client error "refers to a location that isunavailable"

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, John Drescher wrote:
>
>
> > One other question. Does the path /var/lib/samba/shares/user have any
>  > files other then the dfs links?
>
>  While I did create various files/directories during testing, on my initial
>  test only the following link existed:
>
I ask these questions because a few weeks ago I was trying this out I
had similar problems but after cleaning the share out and rebooting XP
it worked for me.
>
>  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Mar 10 16:26 henson -> msdfs:zfs1.unx.csupomona.edu\henson
>
>  I also cleaned up the remnants of my testing, leaving only the above link
>  again, and tried again from a fresh client, with the same failure.
>
>  If I pull up an actual Windows 2003 server running Dfs, and right-click on
>  the share, there is a DFS tab. Pulling up the samba server, there is no
>  such tab on the share properties.
There should be one for your samba share as well. I have a dfs tab in
XP for my samba shares with dfs root enabled.

>  Also, the Windows server is identified as
>  "Windows Server", whereas the samba server is identified as "Windows NT 4.9
>  Server"; I'm not sure if that makes a difference...
>
That is the same for me.

John