msdfs referrals at share-level

[Shirish Kalele]

Hi,

This is cool. Which Windows clients have you tested with?

As for the patch, it might be better if you coded this such that a
self-referral either pointed to itself, or to the proxied share. Having
something like 'msdfs proxy = server\share' in smb.conf, and sending that
whenever a self-referral was to be sent would be better than the hack you
have where you manipulate the client's requested path to become the msdfs
link to the proxy. imho, anyway. This might also make it easier to code the
NETDFS interface to this proxy stuff.

Cheers,
Shirish

----- Original Message -----
From: "Guenther Deschner" <gd at suse.de>
To: "Shirish Kalele" <kalele at veritas.com>
Cc: <samba-technical at lists.samba.org>; "Thomas Wiebach" <wiebach at suse.de>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 6:36 AM
Subject: Re: msdfs referrals at share-level


hello shirish,

we made some more experiments with the dfs-code and now have a running
solution for our smb-proxy, without breaking msdfs (well, i didn't had a
look on the dfs_rpc-pipe for now...)

you can now have a samba-share behave like an mdfs-symlink.
if you set a share to "msdfs proxy = yes" and declare the link in its
path to "msdfs link name = linkname" the clients will reveive correct
referrals already when they access the share :)

since we are planning to use this patch in production, it would be very
nice if you could comment on this.

-----8<------------------snip--------------8<--------------
add to smb.conf:
        [global]
                host msdfs = yes

        [dfs-fake]
                path = /export/dfs-fake
                msdfs root      = yes
                msdfs proxy     = yes
                msdfs link name = "linkname"

create a link:

        ln -s msdfs:unimak\\storage /export/dfs-fake/linkname
----->8------------------snap-------------->8--------------

thanks a lot,
guenther


On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:50:51AM -0700, Shirish Kalele wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Clients do request dfs referrals for every share they connect to. In a dfs
> reply for a share, you could try and send a different sharename and see
what
> happens. I don't know if clients will be able to handle this. Look for
> self_referral in the setup_dfs_referral() code to find out where to start
> making changes.
>
> Let me know how the clients take it..
>
> Thanks,
> Shirish
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Guenther Deschner" <guenther.deschner at suse.de>
> To: <samba-technical at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 2:48 PM
> Subject: msdfs referrals at share-level
>
> hello everybody,
>
> as far as i have looked into msdfs.c it seems to be impossible to send
> a client a dfs-referral at the share level (\\fileserver\msdfs-link).
>
> maybe there is another way to "proxy" a request to \\samba\thisshare to
> \\anothersamba\thatshare ?
>
> i currently want to migrate a couple of nt-servers transparently for
> clients. the basic idea is to setup one samba-server that offers faked
> file-service via netbios-aliases and dfs-redirects to the real
> samba-fileserver. unfortunatly touching the clients is a no-go.
>
> old setup with *nt*:
>
>  client -> //fileserver/share1
>
> planned setup with *samba*:
>
>  client -> //fileserver/share1  where share1 -> msdfs:samba-file\whatever
>
> any help is much appreciated.
>
> bye,
> guenther
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