On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Nicolas Ecarnot <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 24/08/2011 11:02, Nicolas Ecarnot a écrit : >> >> Hi, >> >> - Server : Ubuntu server 11.04 >> - Samba 3.5.8 >> - (Likewise 6.0.0-2 if that can make sense... ? - Anyway : working >> fine; A.D. integration OK) >> - Client : windows XP SP3 >> >> When trying to use this brand new server as a DFS root, I'm facing an >> issue I can't solve: >> - Pointing to \\servername\dfsroot\linktootherserver I'm getting the >> error message "share refers to a location that is unavailable" >> - Pointing to \\192.168.xx.yy\dfsroot\linktootherserver , this is >> working >> >> I was pretty proud of my clean DNS architecture, and I can confirm the >> windows client, the dfsroot server and the dfs target are all nicely >> dns-resolving each other, including their reverses. >> >> I also tried with the FQDN but with no luck. >> The error logs is more than useless. >> >> I don't really know in which direction to search. >> You'll surely have hints? >> > > Hi List, > > While facing the astonishing amount of replies, yet I found some time to dig > on this issue, and it appeared the problem came from the lack of the option > > wide links = yes > > on the concerned share. > > Activating this option forced me to globally disable > > unix extensions = no > > as I understood from this note : > > http://www.samba.org/samba/news/symlink_attack.html > > What I'm keeping to see as weird is that using the IP address still allows > me to use wide links abilities AND unix extensions... > > Anyway, this one is solved, let's face the next one. >
Thanks for the info. I have seen this years back however since I had to move remove dns because I had to put all of my linux servers on a private network not connected to the internet. So I ended up using ipaddresses in all msdfs links.. John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
