Hi All,

I'm trying to set up a load balancing samba DFS, and have been following the documentation;

http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/...fs.html#dfscfg

and

http://www.faqs.org/docs/samba/ch08.html.


I have included the relevant lines into my smb.conf
[global]
host msdfs = yes
[dfs]
path = /dfsroot
msdfs root = yes

I added the sylmink in /dfsroot by typing;

ln -s msdfs:serverB\\share1,serverC\\share1 dfs_data

however only one of the shares (serverB) appears when browsing with a dfs client to \\serverA\dfs\

If I swap the position of serverB and serverC in the text, again only the first share appears in my DFS.

I also tried adding the symlink using;

ln -s 'msdfs:serverB\share1,msdfs:serverC\share1' dfs_data

But I still encounter the same problems.

Can anyone point me in the right direction here? Has anyone encountered this before? I am hoping it is just a step that I have missed out, or am using the wrong command to add the symlink.

I have restarted the samba services and the DFS client, and both network shares have the same name.

Let me know if you need any more info. Thanks in advance!
nick

on
Suse 10
2.6.13-15.12-default

with
samba 3.0.20b

using
windows xp sp2 clients

Maybe someone has some experience in setting up Samba DFS load balancing shares and could provide me with their configs, and the steps that were taken to set them up? It might give me something to go on, or show me a step that I may have overlooked, or is not clear in the documentation?

Thanks,
nick

Has anyone managed to successfully set up a Samba DFS share? Surely this has been done in the past?

If so, please could you paste your configs and maybe some guidance towards the documentation / books that you used to set this up?

screw this.. i'm going back to bill gates, its easy in windows. linux is for nerds.

I met exactly the same issue, still no one answer!