Is it possible to mount Windows DFS shares as cifs mount and follow DFS links on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 ?

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Issue

  • Mounting Distributed File System (DFS) shares as a CIFS mount on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 returns the following error:
    [root@system1~]# mount -t cifs //win-system1/Data /tmp/temp_mount_point -o
    username='DOMAIN/user',password='password',ro,uid=60029,gid=2000 

    [root@system1 ~]# ll /tmp/temp_mount_point/Operations 
    ls: reading directory /tmp/temp_mount_point/Operations: Object is remote 
    total 0

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

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