Configuring Samba Server to act as a DFS Server

[pualeong]

I am trying to configure Samba 2.2.7 installed in Redhat 7.2 to act as a DFS Server.

I have an opened shared drive, called "temp" in a Windows 2000 Professional machine. I have created a softlink, called "temp" in my DFS root folder to the "temp" shared drive, using this command:

ln -s msdfs:<machine IP>\\temp temp


After mapping to the DFS root from another Windows 2000 machine, I tried to change directory into the &quot;temp&quot; folder from the Windows Explorer, but I was not able to access to the content of the &quot;temp&quot; folder. I have 2 questions on the DFS :

1) Which username and password does the Samba server used to connect to the &quot;temp&quot; shared drive, when I access from my windows explorer?

2) Do I need to create a corresponding username and password in the Windows machine with &quot;temp&quot; shared drive, that is used by my windows explorer to access to the Samba Server?

Any advice on how to solve this problem?

Here is an extract of the error message from the log file.

[2002/12/03 20:47:30, 3] smbd/trans2.c:call_trans2qfilepathinfo(1723)
call_trans2qfilepathinfo: vfs_stat of temp failed (No such file or directory)

[2002/12/03 20:47:30, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(94)
error string = No such file or directory

[2002/12/03 20:47:30, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(109)
error packet at smbd/trans2.c(1725) cmd=50 (SMBtrans2) NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND


Thank you.

LKP

 

[fluegub]

Hello Pualeong,
Did you ever get a reply to your message, regarding samba dfs posted on this forum on December 03, 2002? I ask because I have a similar problem, and trying to find solutions to it.

If you have any suggestions, answers, I would appreciate you sharing them with me.

thanks
robert