SUMMARY Opening a "SMB msdfs path" fails on linux desktop clients that use libsmbclient. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. For example open dolphin/nautilus 2. open a msdfs path: "smb://server.example/sharename/msdfs_link" OBSERVED RESULT KDE: Instantly opens an empty folder, displays in the middle "No shared folder found" Gnome: "oops, something went wrong" stat/smbc_readdir: "session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE Couldn't resolve \linkname" EXPECTED RESULT It should show me the contents of the msdfs link target directory. Example server setup: in the smb.conf [group] path = /srv/fsdb/dfsgroup msdfs root = yes then simply a symlink has to be crated within the path: ln -s msdfs:server.example\\sharename linkname Please see link below for an example program directly using libsmbclient https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499259#c1