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Anyone got DFS samba shares working in Konqueror (SMB kio)? I can smbclient to one of our DFS shares on the company server but not smb:// from Konq? (The IT guy just discovered MS solution to not having symlinks) E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm
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On Fri, September 8, 2006 7:01 am, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
Anyone got DFS samba shares working in Konqueror (SMB kio)? I can smbclient to one of our DFS shares on the company server but not smb:// from Konq?
(The IT guy just discovered MS solution to not having symlinks)
If you're in a domain situation, and the computer isn't a member (like my laptops), then you'll need the following smb://domain\user@server/share For example, to connect to a share at my work, I have the following bookmark: smb://vims\e51541@svote/xUtility Don't forget to put the slash thingys in the right direction. :) -- Kai Ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request
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On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 07:09 -0700, PerfectReign wrote:
On Fri, September 8, 2006 7:01 am, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
Anyone got DFS samba shares working in Konqueror (SMB kio)? I can smbclient to one of our DFS shares on the company server but not smb:// from Konq?
(The IT guy just discovered MS solution to not having symlinks)
If you're in a domain situation, and the computer isn't a member (like my laptops), then you'll need the following
smb://domain\user@server/share
For example, to connect to a share at my work, I have the following bookmark: smb://vims\e51541@svote/xUtility
Don't forget to put the slash thingys in the right direction. :)
Did that, now it asks for a password, I supply, but still fails. When I connect to a "normal" (non-DFS) smb share on the same server it works. E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm
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On Fri, September 8, 2006 10:49 am, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 07:09 -0700, PerfectReign wrote:
On Fri, September 8, 2006 7:01 am, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
Anyone got DFS samba shares working in Konqueror (SMB kio)? I can smbclient to one of our DFS shares on the company server but not smb:// from Konq?
(The IT guy just discovered MS solution to not having symlinks)
If you're in a domain situation, and the computer isn't a member (like my laptops), then you'll need the following
smb://domain\user@server/share
For example, to connect to a share at my work, I have the following bookmark: smb://vims\e51541@svote/xUtility
Don't forget to put the slash thingys in the right direction. :)
Did that, now it asks for a password, I supply, but still fails. When I connect to a "normal" (non-DFS) smb share on the same server it works.
Ouch! My bad! I didn't catch the DFS reference. Until your current email, I hadn't heard of DFS. I wonder if somehow they broke the CIFS/SMB specification when implementing DFS (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/storage/dfs/default....) in Windows Workstation 2003. I know I just had 18 quad-processor Win2K3 workstations installed for a project I'm working on. I'll see if any are using DFS and attempt to connect. Accoring to this ( http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2002/12/05/samba.html ) link: "Want to use Microsoft's Distributed File System (Dfs)? Samba 2.2 makes it amazingly simple. Add a [Dfs] section to your Samba configuration file, create a directory for the [Dfs] share, and then create symbolic links for each Dfs junction." I'm not sure what all that means. I think I know what a symbolic link is, one of my Linux gurus at my last job would set them up for me. Also not sure what a "junction" refers to. Some quick google searching shows me there may be issues with DFS when using a domain model (I assume AD works) and also with sub-folder (Excuse me - directories) under DFS shares. HTH! Good luck. I'll be researching this as well. -- Kai Ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request
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On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 11:41 -0700, PerfectReign wrote:
On Fri, September 8, 2006 10:49 am, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 07:09 -0700, PerfectReign wrote:
On Fri, September 8, 2006 7:01 am, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
Anyone got DFS samba shares working in Konqueror (SMB kio)? I can smbclient to one of our DFS shares on the company server but not smb:// from Konq?
(The IT guy just discovered MS solution to not having symlinks)
If you're in a domain situation, and the computer isn't a member (like my laptops), then you'll need the following
smb://domain\user@server/share
For example, to connect to a share at my work, I have the following bookmark: smb://vims\e51541@svote/xUtility
Don't forget to put the slash thingys in the right direction. :)
Did that, now it asks for a password, I supply, but still fails. When I connect to a "normal" (non-DFS) smb share on the same server it works.
Ouch! My bad! I didn't catch the DFS reference. Until your current email, I hadn't heard of DFS. I wonder if somehow they broke the CIFS/SMB specification when implementing DFS (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/storage/dfs/default....) in Windows Workstation 2003.
I know I just had 18 quad-processor Win2K3 workstations installed for a project I'm working on. I'll see if any are using DFS and attempt to connect.
Accoring to this ( http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2002/12/05/samba.html ) link:
"Want to use Microsoft's Distributed File System (Dfs)? Samba 2.2 makes it amazingly simple. Add a [Dfs] section to your Samba configuration file, create a directory for the [Dfs] share, and then create symbolic links for each Dfs junction."
I'm not sure what all that means. I think I know what a symbolic link is, one of my Linux gurus at my last job would set them up for me. Also not sure what a "junction" refers to.
Some quick google searching shows me there may be issues with DFS when using a domain model (I assume AD works) and also with sub-folder (Excuse me - directories) under DFS shares.
HTH!
Good luck. I'll be researching this as well.
-- Kai Ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com
remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request
Seeing that I can successfully connect using plain commandline "smbclient //server/DFSshare", I believe that the KDE kio implementation of smb DFS is not complete. I will check with the KDE forum. So to sum up Samba can do DFS client and server but KDE kio interface cant at the moment (or is broken). I also have some issues with Kerberos support under KDE kio - it does not support it it seems. E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm
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