[Samba] domain-based DFS ?

[Davor Vusir]

I'm not that experienced with Linux but from what I can grasp it won't
be a problem as the mount command supports MS-DFS.

Please keep us posted and good luck.
Davor

2014-06-30 12:09 GMT+02:00 steve <steve at steve-ss.com>:
> On Mon, 2014-06-30 at 11:36 +0200, Davor Vusir wrote:
>> 2014-06-29 23:40 GMT+02:00 steve <steve at steve-ss.com>:
>> > On Sun, 2014-06-29 at 23:19 +0200, Klaus Hartnegg wrote:
>> >> On 28.06.2014 09:38, Davor Vusir wrote:
>> >> > Domainbased DFS works.
>> >>
>> >> How? I can only find descriptions for stand-alone DFS, no mention of
>> >> domainbased DFS in Samba anywhere. It works with SYSVOL, but it seems to
>> >> be impossible to configure own DFS names like this.
>> >>
>> > +1
>> > sysvol and and netlogon work on the DC as:
>> > \\domain\sysvol
>> > but not if we add our own share.
>> >
>> > But we don't want to use the DC as a file server anyway. Only server
>> > name dfs is possible anywhere else but even then it only works for the
>> > first server specified.
>> >
>> > Do we have any guidelines as to what to expect for dfs on samba?
>> > Thanks,
>> > Steve
>> >
>>
>> Sorry. Forgot an excerpt from the Windows Eventlog:
>>
>> Log Name:      Application
>> Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Folder Redirection
>> Date:          2014-06-30 11:27:29
>> Event ID:      501
>> Task Category: None
>> Level:         Information
>> Keywords:
>> User:          VUSIR\davor
>> Computer:      win7.vusir.local
>> Description:
>> Successfully applied policy and redirected folder "Documents" to
>> "\\vusir.local\files\home\davor\Documents".
>>  Redirection options=0x1001.
>> Event Xml:
>> <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
>>   <System>
>>     <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Folder Redirection"
>> Guid="{7D7B0C39-93F6-4100-BD96-4DDA859652C5}" />
>>     <EventID>501</EventID>
>>     <Version>0</Version>
>>     <Level>4</Level>
>>     <Task>0</Task>
>>     <Opcode>0</Opcode>
>>     <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
>>     <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-06-30T09:27:29.170800000Z" />
>>     <EventRecordID>1720</EventRecordID>
>>     <Correlation ActivityID="{538B2AD4-9830-49C6-BD0A-B475546B2E30}" />
>>     <Execution ProcessID="892" ThreadID="3976" />
>>     <Channel>Application</Channel>
>>     <Computer>win7.hem.vusir.se</Computer>
>>     <Security UserID="S-1-5-21-4135210406-1847680363-3009157138-1105" />
>>   </System>
>>   <EventData Name="EVENT_FDEPLOY_SucceededToApplyPolicy">
>>     <Data Name="FromFolder">Documents</Data>
>>     <Data Name="ToFolder">\\vusir.local\files\home\davor\Documents</Data>
>>     <Data Name="Options">0x1001</Data>
>>   </EventData>
>> </Event>
>>
>> +1 Huh?
>>
>> Regards
>> Davor
>> >
>
> Wonderful. Armed with this and our working windows clients, we'll go
> over to the cifs list and ask if we can have this as a cifs mount option
> instead of having to specify the server. What do you reckon?
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
>