[Samba] Question about DFS

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Sorry for the late reply. Thank you Jason, Harald and Jeremy - your 
input helped me a lot :)

Best wishes

Tom

On 29.04.2016 00:05, Jason Chang wrote:
> I see. I based my answer on a older distribution. 4.1.6.  Thanks Jeremy 
> for
> the info.
> 
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:08:54AM -0700, Jason Chang wrote:
>> > 1. What is the ordering method of a DFS Share with multiple servers (e.g.
>> > msdfs:serverB\\share,serverC\\share linkb ; Source:
>> > https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/msdfs.html)?
>> > With a Microsoft DFS i have 3 options regarding the target. (Targets in a
>> > client's site are listed first in a referral. Nevertheless i can choose
>> > between: Random order, Lowest cost, Exclude targets outside of the
>> client's
>> > site). Is it possible to achieve something similar with a samba DFS?
>> 
>> 4.4.x and 4.3.x have "msdfs shuffle referrals"
>> 
>> <description>
>>         <para>If set to <constant>yes</constant>, Samba will shuffle
>>         Dfs referrals for a given Dfs link if multiple are available,
>>         allowing for load balancing across clients. For more 
>> information
>>         on setting up a Dfs tree on Samba, refer to the MSDFS chapter 
>> in
>>         the Samba3-HOWTO book.</para>
>> </description>
>> 
>>