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Comment on Access DFS Shares from Mac OS X by Domonique Supplee

Domonique Supplee — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:39:14 +0000

Like a small businessperson, you don’t have any greater leverage as opposed to truth.
A group or even an artist shouldn’t get his money until his boss gets his.

Comment on Updated dfstool v1.1 Now Available by David V

David V — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:20:08 +0000

I am using 10.6.8, the machine is bound to AD.

I ran the dfstool -s servername -u username -l and the box popped up. I hit about then config and entered the server. I received no output.

When i try to mount i get dfspath not found.

Comment on Updated dfstool v1.1 Now Available by BirdFlew Over

BirdFlew Over — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:47:20 +0000

Please forgive my ignorance in advance. I have downloaded this tool to help with dfs shares. Our organization recently went from using smb shares to a specific server location to a dfs and now our Macs will not connect. I ran the tool and received errors Line 17 unexpected EOF while looking for matching ” and Line 244: Syntax error : unexpected end of file. Logout Process completed. I changed in the exec dfs v1.1 file to a domain controller on our network.
I never get a prompt that allows me to input any of the help items and if I try outside of the app. I get an error the app exec can not be found. I am not a Unix guru at all. So any help or explanation would be helpful.
Thank You in advance for helping me understand how to use this tool and get it to work.

Comment on Updated dfstool v1.1 Now Available by Abdul

Abdul — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:32:08 +0000

additional information: all the shares have a “$” at the end of their names.

Comment on Updated dfstool v1.1 Now Available by Abdul

Abdul — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:46:21 +0000

Hi,

I am using macosx 10.6.8 and I have the same problem like matt from August 31st, 2011 at 18:00

>dfstool -s servername -u username -l
After asking for the password:
dfstool: dfspath not found

Servername is a DC fullname, the username is a AD username and the mac is not joined to AD.

Do have any idee what may be wrong?
(dfstool v1.2)

Comment on Updated dfstool v1.1 Now Available by D. McGuire

D. McGuire — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:11:42 +0000

OK, I figured out my issue. I was using the full “domain.local” section, and I cut that down to just “\\domain\share\”, and I made sure that I added the slash at the end, and that worked for me.

Comment on Updated dfstool v1.1 Now Available by D. McGuire

D. McGuire — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:11:31 +0000

I too am not seeing any output with the -l switch. Lion and my Windows boxes see it just fine. Any tips since last post?

Comment on Updated dfstool v1.1 Now Available by Jorge Escala

Jorge Escala — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:48:06 +0000

You didn’t get any errors when you used the -l switch, but did you get any output at all? That should have listed all the DFS shares available from that DFS root namespace server. If you got no output from the -l command then you may not be using the correct server or something else is wrong.

Comment on Updated dfstool v1.1 Now Available by matt

matt — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:00:20 +0000

didn’t get any errors when i navigated to /usr/local/bin and ran
./dfstool -s serverName -u myUsername -l

so i then tried to mount dfs
dfstool [-M [-s ] [-u ]] dfspath

./dfstool -M -s serverName -u myUsername ‘\\serverName\folder’
and get a “dfstool: dfspath not found” error

mounting to a mount point
./dfstool -m /Volumes/myTestVolume/ -s serverName -u myUsername ‘\\serverName\folder’
and get a “dfstool: dfspath not found” error

Comment on Updated dfstool v1.1 Now Available by Jorge Escala

Jorge Escala — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:03:26 +0000

You should not be running the applet binary from the command line. All those options are for /usr/local/bin/dfstool. That should be in your path so you should not have to specify the whole path or cd to any directory. Try the following:

dfstool -s servername -u username -l