A network administrator sent advice to the Samba mailing list after long sessions trying to determine why DFS was not working. His advice is worth noting.

“ I spent some time trying to figure out why my particular DFS root wasn't working. I noted in the documentation that the symlink should be in all lowercase. It should be amended that the entire path to the symlink should all be in lowercase as well. ”

“For example, I had a share defined as such:”

“and I could not make my Windows 9x/Me (with the dfs client installed) follow this symlink:”

		damage1 -> msdfs:damage\test-share
		

“Running a debug level of 10 reveals:”

		[2003/08/20 11:40:33, 5] msdfs/msdfs.c:is_msdfs_link(176)
		  is_msdfs_link: /export/home/shares/public_share/* does not exist.
		

“Curious. So I changed the directory name from .../Shares/... to .../shares/... (along with my service definition) and it worked!”