On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Bruce Richardson <itsbr...@workshy.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 09:14:39AM -0400, John Drescher wrote: >> >> Its working for me for years at work with (xp, xp64, and now windows7 >> 64 bit). I as of a few months I am running samba-3.5.8 on the dfs root >> however I had 3.0.37 installed up until recently. >> >> Did you reboot the xp clients after enabling the dfs root? > > Yes. I have been rebooting windows workstations and laptops with every > test, tweak and configuration change since I started testing DFS. It > makes no difference (and I've tested both 3.0.x and 3.5.x on the server > side, as well). There seems to be some policy setting on WinXP and 2003 > which is blocking their access, something which is different on Vista, > 2008 and Win7. > > There was a brief thread about this issue back in January which suggests > that a recent security update may be to blame. > > There may be some difference between our set-up (LDAP-backed Samba 3.x > domain) and yours,
I am using a samba ldap domain. > but the guys who reported the issue in January are > both running their samba servers within Active Directory domains, so > they aren't identical set-ups to ours. > > I can use the DFS admin tool on a Windows XP box to examine the DFS root > and its links. It happily verifies the status of the links and the > shares they point to. But any attempt to open the links gives me > "\\Apps01\files\link refers to a location that is unavailable". > Frustratingly, Windows XP doesn't log anything at all about this. > Have you tried using the real ip address in the links? I switched to that years ago to allow cifs-msdfs links without a dns server. I am not sure if that had any effect on XP clients though. fileserv network_dfs_root # ls -al total 24 drwxr-xr-x 6 Administrator Domain Users 4096 Feb 2 2010 . drwxr-xr-x 5 Administrator root 4096 Apr 30 2008 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator root 31 Oct 21 2009 DataAnalysis -> msdfs:192.168.1.33\DataAnalysis drwxr-xr-x 2 Administrator Domain Users 4096 Aug 20 2009 SystemLinks lrwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator root 26 Oct 27 2009 Testing -> msdfs:192.168.1.32\Testing drwxr-xr-x 4 Administrator root 4096 Apr 30 2008 Users drwxr-xr-x 4 Administrator Domain Users 4096 Apr 30 2008 images drwxr-xr-x 3 Administrator Domain Users 4096 Feb 2 2010 other John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba