Hi! https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/dfs-namespaces/change-the-amount-of-time-that-clients-cache-referrals says about two different types of referrals: root referrals vs folder referrals. Folder referrals, as far as I can see, is what samba uses when you turn "msdfs root = yes" for a share. These are special-form "dfs" symlinks within the share. Am I right root referral is what's named "msdfs proxy" in samba, which allows to redirect a share itself to another place? If this is the case, I'm not sure why such root referrals are cached for 5 mins while directory referrals are cached for much longer 30 mins by default, - I'd say it should be the opposite ;) And if this is the case, maybe it's time to make the samba docs to be consistent with Microsoft docs? I still can't find information about domain-based DFS anywhere, there are mentions that samba can participate in domain-based DFS but nothing more, and server manager which microsoft uses to configure dfs shares on a given server says this domain (or server) does not support dfs. Also, I remember seeing an example smb.conf somewhere, where directory referrals were specified directly in smb.conf, but I can't find it now. Maybe I'm dreaming and it was "msdfs proxy" instead.. Thanks! /mjt