Is it possible to mount Windows DFS shares as cifs mount and follow DFS links on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 ?
Issue
- Mounting Distributed File System (DFS) shares as a
CIFSmount 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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