I don't think you have to define a DFS root.
On the unix level you can create a symbolic link
e.g.
server1# cd /export/data1
server1# ln -s msdfs:server2\sata2 data2
Assuming that server:/export/data1 is shared in samba as \\server1\data1
the link is meaningless for unix user but if a widnowsyou connect to
\\server1\data1, and click on data2, you will be actually be redirected
to \\server2\data2 share- server1 does not actually reshare anything.
On 06/08/2011 10:48 AM, will ryder wrote:
Having a little bit of trouble understanding how my configuration might work.
Having seen this :
http://communities.netapp.com/thread/3616
Does this mean that the DFS root is on the RHEL and NetApp is a leaf node ?
Would anyone have a sample configuration for what i would like to do or could
suggest one?
Thanks
Will
On Jun 7, 2011, at 9:39 PM, Chris Weiss wrote:
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:27 PM, will ryder<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I am running a samba server that has two shares:
i) Local directory
ii) samba mount on NetApp Filer.
The samba server is running on RHEL 5.
There is a large transfer speed difference between the local directory and
samba mount.
I have run some tests and determined this is due to RHEL5 reshare of the samba.
Does anyone have suggestions so that I can make this faster ?
use a DFS link so that clients access the netapp cifs directly.
re-sharing is always going to cause some sort of problems, performance
is usually the least of them.
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