[Samba] domain-based DFS ?

[Davor Vusir]

2014-07-03 11:51 GMT+02:00 steve <steve at steve-ss.com>:
> On Thu, 2014-07-03 at 11:05 +0200, L.P.H. van Belle wrote:
>> Thanks Davor...
>>
>> you found at least one problem, adding the interfaces and bind options fixed at least 1 thing.
>>
>> No changes on the windows 7 pc.
>>
>> in smb.conf i added
>>
>>         interfaces = 127.0.0.1 192.168.1.1/24
>>         bind interfaces only = yes
>>
>> ( Ubuntu users dont use eth or lo, this is buggy  )
>>
>> added
>> [dfs]
>>         comment = DFS Root Share
>>         path = /export/dfsroot
>>         browsable = yes
>>         msdfs root = yes
>>         read only = no
>>
>>
>> now my test :
>>
>> smbclient //localhost/dfs  -U 'DOMAIN\administrator'
>> cd someshare
>>
>> works
>>
>> windows7 pc to \\servername\dfs\someshare
>> works
>>
>> ...
>> now working on the domain based dfs
>>
>>
>> Greetz,
>>
>> Louis
>
> Hi
> Yes, I can confirm this. Specifying the server works but not on a load
> balancing or failover share where two servers offer the same share. If
> the first server is unavailable the second server is not consulted.
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
The information about possible failover hosts are in the AD part of
the AD DC. I don't think it will work until there is a endpointmapper
in place that handles DFS.

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