similar to: DFS slow -- UNC fast -- why would this be?

For those having problems with Vista, and unc paths showing up empty, I can confirm that: [global] host msdfs = no fixes the problem. This is on 3.0.24 with all patches. Note that I am not using Dfs root shares or the like. YMMV Hope this helps someone. Cheers! -- Richard Potter

Hi! Is there any way for the "HOMES" share to be mapped to \\server\whatever\%USERNAME% instead of \\server\%USERNAME% . I think that DFS still don't work fine for linux CIFS mounting. So, if I could do this kind of mapping, this would let me give users now the final UNCs and introduce DFS in a future time (when DFS mounting will be fully supported) without having to disturb

Hello, we use DFS on samba and have noticed that writes to some file servers listed under the DFS drive letter are very slow, yet writes to the same machines directly using UNC paths are very quick. Are all communications between the client and end server proxied threw the DFS root server if this service is used? thanks, greg

Does anybody know if it is possible to have a WIndows client access an existing DFS share. Based on what I have been able to determine so far. It appears that files can only be served to windows clients using nfs. Does anybody have any information on this? I''ve read through the wiki and didn''t see anything mentioning this. Additionally, my other searches on this topic has

Hello, Our company currently stores its data on centralized samba servers which causes performance problems for remote office employees. We are thinking of decentralizing the data with NAS in each office and synchronizing all the NAS on our central domain controller with MSDFS. I have heard this can be done in real time with Windows and Active Directory.

I ran into a situation where partial UNC support would be helpful and easy. Visual Sourcesafe runs well under Wine if I map \\vssServer\vssDir to a drive letter. Unfortunately, our administrator has the line journal_file = \\vssServer\vssDir\foo.txt in the sourcesafe config file. This causes an error dialog box "Bad DOS filename \\vssServer\vssDir\foo.txt". If Wine handled UNC

Hi all I wish to run 'Enterprise Architect' from Sparx Systems[1]. The installer runs just fine, and the application installs OK. The main issue is that the license key file is a shared resource - many users can utilise the same license file (legitimately I might add!) at the same time, so the license file is located on a SMB share. The key file itself has encoded into itself what the

Feature Requests item #2811, was opened at 2005-11-10 15:17 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=414&aid=2811&group_id=85 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: graham foster (fosterg2) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: Add UNC support to file / dir Initial Comment: I''d like to see win32

I've translated a Windows based DFS tree to a Samba based (3.0.23c) one and it seems to work quite well from Windows Explorer and cmd.exe. First off, I have a relatively big tree. grep dfscmd /root/dfs.cmd | wc -l 1614 One issue I've noticed that tree enumeration and manipulation from a Windows machine to a Samba based DFS root just doesn't work at all. For instance dfscmd.exe

My apologies if this is an off-topic WINE question... I have 5 Wintel machines that all UNC map over to my Ubuntu server (\\Ubuntu\M-Music\) for my MediaMonkey application. I use SAMBA for network sharing and it works perfectly. I am trying to configure WINE to have the same UNC mapping structure on my Linux machine (eg. \Ubuntu\M-Music\) so I can share a common SQLite database throughout the

Hi, Not a Samba question specifically, so please forgive me, but somewhat related... I am trying to automate some tasks in a secure environment (restricted ipsec vpn). Running Windows 2000 (and XP, etc), I would like to be able to access a Samba server using the UNC, but specify a username/password combination as well. You know, in Windows Explorer it allows you to "Connect using a

I find that Sys.glob() doesn't like UNC paths where the initial slashes are backslashes. The help page for Sys.glob() doesn't specificly mention UNC paths, but does say: "File paths in Windows are interpreted with separator \ or /." Is the failure to treat a path beginning with a double-backslash as a UNC network drive path the intended behavior? E.g., on a Windows system

HiHo If I try to mount a DFS from our Windows 2000 Server on my linux box I only get the top-level structure, all DFS links are empty. How can I mount a DFS? Ciau Rainer

I have been looking into DFS (no R) with Samba and found the page https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Distributed_File_System_(DFS) and do have some questions: ?There is currently (July 2014) a discussion in the mailing list in which several users report great difficulties with domain-based DFS in samba 4, maybe related with the implementation of smb protocol version 3.? ? is this still true or has

Hiya! I have a developer that would like to be able to have access to a share on a UNIX server running Samba where he can use UNCs embedded in VB code on a win2k client to access files on the share. No problem, easily done. He also wants users to _NOT_ be able to use the Windows Explorer to map the drive and gain access that way. He wants only for his embedded UNCs to access the share. If you

Hi Jeremy, Hi Steve, Hi Ronnie, thanks for your replies and the profound discussion. I think, it's best to demonstrate my problem case along an real world example: The following log of a console sesssion shows how I am doing the mounts on behalf Linux Kernel CIFS-FS Module on the client side against a Samba 4.5 file server (both running on Debian Stretch 9.8) via SMB/CIFS resp. SMB2 protocol:

What is msdfs? What can you do with it that you could not do without it? David

Hello, i'm trying to figure out some specific things about Samba DFS. 1. What is the ordering method of a DFS Share with multiple servers (e.g. msdfs:serverB\\share,serverC\\share linkb ; Source: https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/msdfs.html)? With a Microsoft DFS i have 3 options regarding the target. (Targets in a client's site are listed first in a

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:08:54AM -0700, Jason Chang wrote: > 1. What is the ordering method of a DFS Share with multiple servers (e.g. > msdfs:serverB\\share,serverC\\share linkb ; Source: > https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/msdfs.html)? > With a Microsoft DFS i have 3 options regarding the target. (Targets in a > client's site are listed first in a

Op 21-08-2023 om 13:43 schreef Joachim Lindenberg via samba: > I have been looking into DFS (no R) with Samba and found the page https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Distributed_File_System_(DFS) and do have some questions: > > ?There is currently (July 2014) a discussion in the mailing list in which several users report great difficulties with domain-based DFS in samba 4, maybe related with