I captured the samba requests and responds and the result reveals that: If the referal target is on a different host of the referral link, the client will issue CREATE_ANDX request with create options = 0x00200044 (i.e. try to open the path as a regular file) but as"abc" is a directory the server responds with STATUS_FILE_IS_A_DIRECTORY. that's why the rename request to \\10.0.0.13\dfsroot\link2 will fail.
But if the referral target is on the same host as the referral link, the CREATE_ANDX request options will be 0x0200000 and this request will succeed and then in trun the rename of \\10.0.0.13\dfsroot\link1 will succeed. Does anyone know why the client will issue CREATE_ANDX with options = 0x00200044 for the first case? Best regards, James Pan --- 12年11月22日，周四, James Pan <[email protected]> 写道： 发件人: James Pan <[email protected]> 主题: is it possible to rename a dfs referral target from client? 收件人: [email protected] 日期: 2012年11月22日,周四,上午9:28 Hi everyone, Sorry for bothering. I have two servers (10.0.0.13, 10.0.0.14) running samba. 10.0.0.13 is configured as dfs root, the smb.conf file is as below: [dfsroot] path = /mnt/dfsroot msdfs root = yes .... then under /mnt/dfsroot on 10.0.0.13 I created a dir "abc" and two links: link1 --> msdfs:\\10.0.0.13\dfsroot\abc link2 --> msdfs:\\10.0.0.14\dfsroot\abc I also created the same dir "abc" on 10.0.0.14 So if I visit \\10.0.0.13\dfsroot\link1 or \\10.0.0.13\dfsroot\link2 it will be refered to \\10.0.0.13\dfsroot\abc and \\10.0.0.14\dfsroot\abc respectively. Now I find I can successfully change the name of dir "abc" on 10.0.0.13 by renaming \\10.0.0.13\dfsroot\link1, after rename the dir "abc" will have the new name. But if I tried to rename \\10.0.0.13\dfsroot\link2, the request will be refused. My question is: is it possible to rename the dir "abc" on 10.0.0.14 through \\10.0.0.13\dfsroot\link2 ? many thanks in advance! Best regards, James Pan
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