Help making Samba a DFS host (not root!)

[Brian H. Nelson]

I'm trying to create a DFS root in my 2003 AD domain, and point it to a
share hosted on a Samba server. From the documentation, I had assumed
that this was supported (msdfs host = yes ?). Am I missing something
basic? This is with Samba 3.0.31 on RHEL 5.

When I go to create the DFS root (via the msc plugin) and instruct it to
use my samba machine as the host, I get this error:

"The computer you entered cannot host the DFS root. You must enter the
name of a computer running an operating system in the Windows 2000
Server or Windows Server 2003 families."

Just to be clear, I'm NOT trying to make Samba a DFS root, just a host
(ie target) for a DFS root in my AD domain. Is Samba only capable of
hosting a samba-based DFS root, and not an AD based one? Is there some
trick to getting it configured?

Thanks!
-Brian

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[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 02:33:57PM -0400, Brian H. Nelson wrote:

> I'm trying to create a DFS root in my 2003 AD domain, and point it to a
> share hosted on a Samba server. From the documentation, I had assumed
> that this was supported (msdfs host = yes ?). Am I missing something
> basic? This is with Samba 3.0.31 on RHEL 5.
>
> When I go to create the DFS root (via the msc plugin) and instruct it to
> use my samba machine as the host, I get this error:
>
> "The computer you entered cannot host the DFS root. You must enter the
> name of a computer running an operating system in the Windows 2000
> Server or Windows Server 2003 families."
>
> Just to be clear, I'm NOT trying to make Samba a DFS root, just a host
> (ie target) for a DFS root in my AD domain. Is Samba only capable of
> hosting a samba-based DFS root, and not an AD based one? Is there some
> trick to getting it configured?

Can you post the network capture trace plus the debug level 10
of the smbd you're pointing the MSC plugin at please ?

Jeremy.
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[Brian H. Nelson]

Jeremy,

Files attached. Let me know if they're not what you need.

Just for fun I tried this with 3.0.28 as well. Same result.

-Brian


Jeremy Allison wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 02:33:57PM -0400, Brian H. Nelson wrote:
>  
>> I'm trying to create a DFS root in my 2003 AD domain, and point it to a
>> share hosted on a Samba server. From the documentation, I had assumed
>> that this was supported (msdfs host = yes ?). Am I missing something
>> basic? This is with Samba 3.0.31 on RHEL 5.
>>
>> When I go to create the DFS root (via the msc plugin) and instruct it to
>> use my samba machine as the host, I get this error:
>>
>> "The computer you entered cannot host the DFS root. You must enter the
>> name of a computer running an operating system in the Windows 2000
>> Server or Windows Server 2003 families."
>>
>> Just to be clear, I'm NOT trying to make Samba a DFS root, just a host
>> (ie target) for a DFS root in my AD domain. Is Samba only capable of
>> hosting a samba-based DFS root, and not an AD based one? Is there some
>> trick to getting it configured?
>>    
>
> Can you post the network capture trace plus the debug level 10
> of the smbd you're pointing the MSC plugin at please ?
>
> Jeremy.
>  

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[Brian H. Nelson]

Any word on this? Should I open a bug? I've got my foot in my mouth
after telling my group that samba supports DFS :-)

Thanks,
-Brian


Brian H. Nelson wrote:

> Jeremy,
>
> Files attached. Let me know if they're not what you need.
>
> Just for fun I tried this with 3.0.28 as well. Same result.
>
> -Brian
>
>
> Jeremy Allison wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 02:33:57PM -0400, Brian H. Nelson wrote:
>>  
>>> I'm trying to create a DFS root in my 2003 AD domain, and point it
>>> to a share hosted on a Samba server. From the documentation, I had
>>> assumed that this was supported (msdfs host = yes ?). Am I missing
>>> something basic? This is with Samba 3.0.31 on RHEL 5.
>>>
>>> When I go to create the DFS root (via the msc plugin) and instruct
>>> it to use my samba machine as the host, I get this error:
>>>
>>> "The computer you entered cannot host the DFS root. You must enter
>>> the name of a computer running an operating system in the Windows
>>> 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003 families."
>>>
>>> Just to be clear, I'm NOT trying to make Samba a DFS root, just a
>>> host (ie target) for a DFS root in my AD domain. Is Samba only
>>> capable of hosting a samba-based DFS root, and not an AD based one?
>>> Is there some trick to getting it configured?
>>>    
>>
>> Can you post the network capture trace plus the debug level 10
>> of the smbd you're pointing the MSC plugin at please ?
>>
>> Jeremy.
>>  
>

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[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:57:04AM -0400, Brian H. Nelson wrote:
> Any word on this? Should I open a bug? I've got my foot in my mouth
> after telling my group that samba supports DFS :-)

Sorry, I dropped the ball on this one. Yes, open up a bug
please and attach the files there, that way more than myself
can work on it.

Thanks,

Jeremy.
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[Brian H. Nelson]

Jeremy Allison wrote:
> Sorry, I dropped the ball on this one. Yes, open up a bug
> please and attach the files there, that way more than myself
> can work on it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeremy.
>  

Ok. Bug 5641 created: "Can't use Samba server as DFS host via dfsgui.msc."

Thanks,
-Brian

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[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:16:10PM -0400, Brian H. Nelson wrote:

> Jeremy Allison wrote:
> >Sorry, I dropped the ball on this one. Yes, open up a bug
> >please and attach the files there, that way more than myself
> >can work on it.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Jeremy.
> >  
>
> Ok. Bug 5641 created: "Can't use Samba server as DFS host via dfsgui.msc."

Thanks, I'll try to get to it this week.

Jeremy.
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