HP UX Common Internet File System (CIFS) Client/Server Software manual Host msdfs = Yes

password server = ceres log level = 10

syslog = 0

log file = /var/opt/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000

host msdfs = Yes

read only = No

[dfsroot]

path = /dfsroot

msdfs root = Yes

Note the two red colored parameters above in [global] and [dfsroot], respectively:

‘Host msdfs = yes’: This parameter must be set to yes to enable samba to host MS DFS links in individual shares.

‘msdfs root = yes’: This parameter is set to yes in any share that will contain MS DFS links to other servers. In this case, we have defined a single share with this property, called ‘dfsroot’. It points to the HP-UX directory ‘/dfsroot’.

Creating the MS DFS links:

#cd /dfsroot

#ln -s msdfs:ceres\\shared_stuff linka

#ln -s msdfs:mccall\\shared_stuff linkb

#ll

total 0
lrwxrwxrwx	1 root	sys	23 Nov	2 12:35 linka -> msdfs:ceres\shared_stuff
lrwxrwxrwx	1 root	sys	25 Nov	2 12:35 linkb -> msdfs:mccall\shared_stuff

NOTE: Compare the format of the ‘ll’ output to the ‘ln –s’ command – we had to ‘escape’ the ‘\’ in the ‘ln’ command. One of the more commonly made mistakes while setting up DFS links for samba is NOT having the appropriate number of backslashes in the ‘ln –s’ command. A properly formatted MS DFS link will take the form:

msdfs:<servername>\<sharename>