On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Bear with me, as I'm pretty clueless as to how AD stuff works. >> >> If all I have is \\domain.realm\namespace1 what should I be doing to >> connect to it at that point? Currently we just treat "domain.realm" as >> a hostname, but evidently that's not quite the right thing to do. Is it? > > Let me check. > > It might be that Windows returns the IP addresses of all the DCs in > that domain in that case (and, if Sites and Services has been set up > properly, returns them with the closest ones to you first in the > list.) That is, my mentioning of SRV records might be a red herring. > > In that case, if the first one fails, you should simply try the next > one until you find one that responds. Let me also point out, as per Samba bug 10095, when Windows indicates that a file or folder is a reparse point, the EA length field actually contains a REPARSE tag. If it is IO_REPARSE_TAG_DFS this means you should request a referral for that object. -- Regards, Richard Sharpe (何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
