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Subject:    [cifs-protocol] [REG: 110042518962417] RE: MS-DFSC potential
From:       Edgar Olougouna <edgaro () microsoft ! com>
Date:       2010-04-26 5:23:42
Message-ID: C3D5BF8228FEF54BABF69D7E1088B85F31BC965C () TK5EX14MBXC110 ! redmond ! corp ! microsoft ! com
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Hello Matthieu,

Thanks for your request for clarification on the MS-DFSC document. I created case \
number 110042518962417 for this request. One of my colleagues will take ownership and \
will contact you soon.

Best regards,
Edgar

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthieu Patou [mailto:mat+Informatique.Samba@matws.net] 
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 12:22 PM
To: Interoperability Documentation Help; cifs-protocol@samba.org
Subject: MS-DFSC potential incoherent documentation

Hello Dochelp team,

I've been working on DFS implementation in samba 4

And I found this:
in 3.3.5.3 of MS-DFSC.pdf:


"For a valid domain name, the server MUST return as many complete DC names as can fit \
in the response buffer. The format of the DC names returned MUST correspond to the \
format of the domain name in the referral request."

Then a bit later:
"The NumberOfReferrals field MUST be set to 1, independent of the number of DC names
     returned."

Then a bit later:

"The server MUST place exactly one referral entry structure in the referral response. \
The server MUST initialize this referral entry as follows."

The two last parts seems to indicate that only one DC should be returned and the \
first one seems to indicate the opposite.

Also this page:
http://technet.microsoft.com/ru-ru/library/cc782417%28WS.10%29.aspx,
seems to indicate also that the DC referral request can return more than
1 DC as it's stated:
"The client checks its referral cache for an existing domain-based root referral. If \
this referral is in the cache, the client proceeds to step 6. If no domain-based root \
referral exists in the referral cache, the client connects to the IPC$ shared folder \
of the active domain controller in the context of the LocalSystem account and \
requests a domain-based root referral. The domain controller determines the clients \
site and returns a list of root targets. By default, the root targets in the clients \
site are at the top of the list, followed by the remaining root targets in random \
order. If least-expensive target selection is enabled, the remaining root targets are \
ordered by lowest cost. If same-site target selection is enabled, only root servers \
in the clients site are listed in the referral."


Can you tells us what is right ? or maybe I'm reading the documentation in the wrong \
way.

Regards.
Matthieu.



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