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authorRobin McCorkell <rmccorkell@karoshi.org.uk>2015-02-27 14:52:46 +0000
committerJeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>2015-02-27 22:53:06 +0100
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MSDFS referral shuffling
Shuffle MSDFS referral list in smbd in accordance with [MS-DFSC] 3.2.1.1 When parsing an MSDFS symlink, the names are shuffled with a Fisher-Yates algorithm. Signed-off-by: Robin McCorkell <rmccorkell@karoshi.org.uk> Reviewed-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
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+<samba:parameter name="msdfs shuffle referrals"
+ context="S"
+ type="boolean"
+ xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
+<description>
+ <para>If set to <constant>yes</constant>, Samba will shuffle
+ Dfs referrals for a given Dfs link if multiple are available,
+ allowing for load balancing across clients. For more information
+ on setting up a Dfs tree on Samba, refer to the MSDFS chapter in
+ the Samba3-HOWTO book.</para>
+</description>
+
+<related>host msdfs</related>
+<related>msdfs root</related>
+<value type="default">no</value>
+</samba:parameter>