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Alexander Bokovoy 91984ef5ca Fix VFS layer:

1. Finally work with cascaded modules with private data storage per module
2. Convert VFS API to macro calls to simplify cascading
3. Add quota support to VFS layer (prepare to NT quota support)

Patch by Stefan (metze) Metzemacher, with review of Jelmer and me
Tested in past few weeks. Documentation to new VFS API for third-party developers to follow

msdfs.c

Fix VFS layer:

README

The new msdfs implementation that uses symlinks to point to other

README

Setting up MS Dfs in Samba
kalele@veritas.com March 2000

Currently, MS Dfs support is a configure time parameter (--with-msdfs). Can be changed later to always compile it in..

To have a server announce itself as a Dfs server, add a "host msdfs=yes" entry to smb.conf.

To make a share a Dfs root, add a "msdfs root=yes" entry to the share definition 
in the smb.conf file.
e.g. 
[pub]
	path = /export/publicsmb
	msdfs root = yes

To create dfs volumes/junctions in the share, create symbolic links of the
format msdfs:server1\share1,server2\share2 and so on.

In the above example, create a dfs volume "dfsstorage" in the [pub] share as:
cd /export/publicsmb
ln -s msdfs:serverA\\share dfsstorage

Clicking on dfsstorage from a dfs-aware client will show you the contents of 
\\serverA\share

Shares with "msdfs root = no" (which is the default) entries are served as normal 
shares and the client stops talking Dfs with Samba after a tconX.

NOTES: 
* Windows clients need to be rebooted if a non-dfs root is made a dfs root or
  vice versa. A better option is to introduce a new share and make it the dfs root.
* Currently there's a restriction that msdfs symlink names should be all 
  lowercase.