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...e what automount does w/ DFS. A single DFS server would be a single point of failure. I need redundant DFS. I've configured a pair of samba servers, w/ DFS on each one. Each machine has a few non-dfs shares referred to by dfs links. I've configured two DNS "A" records, pointing smbnfs.my.domain to *both* IP addresses of these two machines. Testing confirms that if one of the two machines goes down, after about a 15-sec timeout, the Win'XP clients will figure it out and switch to the other server. This means that if a single machine goes down, the DFS links will still be...

Hi all. Thought you would all be interested to know that i, like many others, am experiencing issues with Samba and Photoshop 7.0. The problem is specific to Photoshop 7.0 when saving files to a Samba share via a W2k/XP OS. Users experience a disk full error when saving from Photoshop but have no issues copying/moving etc files to/from the share outside of PS. Well, after some testing, the