HP UX Common Internet File System (CIFS) Client/Server Software manual

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Figure 10: Trace of a failing MS DFS referral due to client being unable to resolve node name in referral response.

In the screen shot for Figure 10, we see the ‘STATUS_PATH_NOT_COVERED’, followed by the ‘GET_DFS_REFERRAL’. THEN we see a number of packets involving name lookup for the server ‘ceres’, who is the server we got a MS DFS referral for. Note the highlighted line ‘Name Query Response’. In the detail window of the above screenshot, you see that this is a NEGATIVE response –

Requested name does not exist’. SO – the referral functioned properly – the client is trying to find the server we referred it to, but is unsuccessful. From the trace, it clearly cannot find the server named ‘ceres’. Why?

First, let’s check to make sure that the server and share we are setting the link up to is correct. On the HP CIFS Server ‘rkm-nt’ we will do this using the ‘smbclient’ utility.

# /opt/samba/bin/smbclient //ceres/shared_stuff -U FreddieTheFish

added interface ip=16.113.9.137 bcast=16.113.63.255 nmask=255.255.192.0 Password:

Domain=[DON1] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]

smb: \> dir

 

 

 

 

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ceres_test.txt

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29 Mon May 24 09:06:10 2004

34717 blocks of size 524288. 32348 blocks available

smb: \>quit

Ok, so WE can find the server and share just fine from the HP CIFS Server making the MS DFS referral.

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Contents Page What is MS DFS? Test environmentConfiguration details Gives us a picture of our test environmentHost msdfs = Yes Page Testing our MS DFS environment Shares and files on Ceres and MccallMS DFS links linka & linkb When we click on the ‘linkb’ folder, we get Contents of linka How it worksPage Redundant MS DFS links Page Troubleshooting MS DFS on HP Cifs Server Problem 1 The network path was not foundPage Page \nbtstat -R Page Problem 2 Logon failure unknown username or password Summary Http//us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection XXXX-XXXXEN, 3/2005
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