On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 05:49:38AM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know if there has been any more progress on the problem of > browsing 'complex dfs roots' > see http://lists.samba.org/archive/smb-clients/2006-February/000622.html > > Basically it occurs whenever you have a Microsoft Distributed File System > Tree where the links are to subfolders of the destination share. > Microsoft clients have no trouble browsing such trees. > > The Samba HOWTO only gives an example of the basic case where the link > happens to be directly to the 'share folder' of the destination > i.e > -------------------------------- > root# cd /export/dfsroot > root# ln -s msdfs:storageA\\shareA linka > > in smb.conf... > [global] > netbios name = GANDALF > host msdfs = yes > > [dfs] > path = /export/dfsroot > msdfs root = yes > ------------------------------- > > But if you try instead: > > root# ln -s msdfs:storageA\\shareA\mydata linka > > Then if you mount \\GANDALF\dfs using smbfs - you can't get into the linka > folder. > > Using smbclient - when you try to cd to that folder you'd get a delay and > then: > Connection to storageA\shareA failed > Unable to follow dfs referral [//storageA\shareA/mydata] > cd \linka\: NT_STATUS_PATH_NOT_COVERED
Can you svn update from SAMBA_3_0_25 and test please. I think I've just fixed this by a merge from SAMBA_3_0. Jerry will have to check this once he gets back online as I believe this is his code. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba