Bug 12847 - Reading from a DFS share returns wrong attributes
Summary: Reading from a DFS share returns wrong attributes
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Samba 4.1 and newer
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Tools (show other bugs)
Version: 4.3.11
Hardware: x64 Linux
: P5 critical (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Andrew Bartlett
QA Contact: Samba QA Contact
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Reported: 2017-06-17 09:50 UTC by William Hilsum
Modified: 2017-06-17 10:59 UTC (History)
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Description William Hilsum 2017-06-17 09:50:49 UTC 
(With Samba 4.3.11 on Ubuntu, latest version from repository)

I have a Windows Server 2016 with a DFS share.

If I use `smbclient`, everything is fine and I can browse/get the files, however, if I run `allinfo` on a file, it is returning an attribute of D instead of stream: [::$data]

If I target the same folder on the server as a non DFS share, everything works as normal.

I am not sure where this comes from the tool itself or a lower library, but, it is causing third party tools that use Samba such as Nextcloud to mark all files on a DFS share as a folder.

I am trying to manually download the latest version of Samba to see if it has been fixed - I've read all release notes (other than 2 dead links) since 4.3.11 and couldn't see a fix.

Nextcloud bug report - https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/5340

Thanks,

William