On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 06:09:05PM +0200, Ofir Azoulay wrote: > Hi, > > > > First, I will try to make my terminology clear: > > There are two "things" MS calls DFS: > > 1. Server/share DFS - in this case you can define a "virtual > server/share" that when a client tries to connect to, the server will > direct it to another, real, server/share to which the client should > connect. The virtual server/share may contain one or more real > server/share pairs and the decision in the client to which to connect is > based on location, load balancing, etc. > > 2. Directory DFS - in this case you can define that a certain > directory inside your share will be actually a link to another > server/share and not a real directory. This is something similar to the > Linux directory in which dirs may be actually mount points. > > > > The issue is that when a client works with the server/share DFS it will > actually use the virtual server name inside its SMBs request. Samba > handles most of them correctly, but in the handling of > Trans2/GET_DFS_REFERRAL it does not. In this action it actually makes > sure that the server name in the request is the name of the computer > running the Samba server - which causes DFS referral to fail. See frames > 1172 and 1195 in the attached TCP-dump.
No TCP-dump attached. Can you send it to me directly please ? Thanks, Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
