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I just made a DFS link that pointed to another DFS share on a different server... It seems to confuse the Win'XP client a bit, but it can be made to work. That means.... I can build a tree structure w/ DFS. I can arrange all my servers and shares into a hierarchy. It may not be practical, but in theory, This could be used as a hierarchical substitute for the network neighborhood. I could configure a...

Hi, ive read a lot in the howto about netbios/ddns, but im still confused if its possible for samba to only use tcp/ip without netbios. are there any howtos for this topic that are not mentioned in the samba3 howto? Greets Julius

...S 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 available. Also, I would still be able to use DFS to redirect client machines to a new SAMBA server without remapping drives. My problem is that DFS servi...