If you ‚promoted‘ a Samba share to DFS root, a try to access the DFS link right after the change, you may receive rather long and useless error message from explorer, that starts with <location> refers to a location that is unavailable. This is all just a result of your impatience. Log off, log on and try again!
Samba DFS link refers to a location that is unavailable.
February 5th, 2008 00:35
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June 1st, 2009 00:37
I rebooted my windows xp box a dozen times, still the same.
June 1st, 2009 00:52
Well that's what helped me, but it was Win2k3 domain controller that had the issue. Are you sure the DFS target is ok and available? Can you access it directly?