DFS Behavior in Lion: /Volumes directory

dzurn · 10-12-2012, 12:00 PM

I've gotten rid of ADmitMac to access our company DFS shares since my needs have been filled (so far!) with Lion's built-in DFS capability.

It took a little digging to figure out how to get them to mount as usual, basically I can use the full DFS path to get to the shares I had before.

The mounted volumes (9 in all) all had custom icons and finder labels for visibility on our Macs. I would check out the mounted volumes by looking at /Volumes, which had all the mounted volumes (including two local hard disks). However now in the Terminal is just DFS, DFS-1, and DFS-2 without the actual share names. (I get 1 DFS directory for the 3 or 4 volumes on one server.)

But, looking at the same /Volumes directory in the Finder shows my 9 expected share names. Weird.

Possibly as a result, however, now the Finder icons are getting mixed up on the mounted shares. It looks like the icon's alpha channel for one drive showing up for another drive, making a really messed up set of icons.

Anyway, it's the strange dichotomy between the Terminal's view of /Volumes and the Finder's view of /Volumes that has me really scratching my head.

I also seem to have lost the ability to run a script which would mount all the 9 shares, due to some kind of privilege violation using Applescript.

Any insight is appreciated.
Darryl

dzurn · 10-12-2012, 02:15 PM

More details:

I didn't have all the shares mounted so I only saw three DFS entries in /Volumes, but now I checked it and there's 9 (DFS through DFS-8).

But I can't use the /Volumes as my list of mounted volumes, since the Terminal sees them as DFS-1, DFS-2 instead of the share name! So something as [previously] simple as "cd /Volumes/MyShare" doesn't work any more.

So how to (now) access the proper drive names via the shell? Hmmm.

[Update: So I typed "cd " in the terminal, and dragged MyShare to it. It filled it in as "CD /Volumes/DFS-6" instead of the sharename. Whew, how can we deal with that when the name to access the share will CHANGE depending on which volumes were mounted first? That's goofed up.]

agentx · 10-14-2012, 05:23 AM

There is a DFS troubleshooting tool that may help.
smbutil dfs smb://FQDN/share
Maybe it might help diagnose what is going on.

10-12-2012, 12:00 PM	#1
dzurn Triple-A Player Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Western Wisconsin, 3rd Rock Posts: 138	DFS Behavior in Lion: /Volumes directory I've gotten rid of ADmitMac to access our company DFS shares since my needs have been filled (so far!) with Lion's built-in DFS capability. It took a little digging to figure out how to get them to mount as usual, basically I can use the full DFS path to get to the shares I had before. The mounted volumes (9 in all) all had custom icons and finder labels for visibility on our Macs. I would check out the mounted volumes by looking at /Volumes, which had all the mounted volumes (including two local hard disks). However now in the Terminal is just DFS, DFS-1, and DFS-2 without the actual share names. (I get 1 DFS directory for the 3 or 4 volumes on one server.) But, looking at the same /Volumes directory in the Finder shows my 9 expected share names. Weird. Possibly as a result, however, now the Finder icons are getting mixed up on the mounted shares. It looks like the icon's alpha channel for one drive showing up for another drive, making a really messed up set of icons. Anyway, it's the strange dichotomy between the Terminal's view of /Volumes and the Finder's view of /Volumes that has me really scratching my head. I also seem to have lost the ability to run a script which would mount all the 9 shares, due to some kind of privilege violation using Applescript. Any insight is appreciated. Darryl __________________ :: I yam Popeye of Borg. :: :: Prepares ta be akskimilgrated. ::

10-12-2012, 02:15 PM	#2
dzurn Triple-A Player Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Western Wisconsin, 3rd Rock Posts: 138	More details: I didn't have all the shares mounted so I only saw three DFS entries in /Volumes, but now I checked it and there's 9 (DFS through DFS-8). But I can't use the /Volumes as my list of mounted volumes, since the Terminal sees them as DFS-1, DFS-2 instead of the share name! So something as [previously] simple as "cd /Volumes/MyShare" doesn't work any more. So how to (now) access the proper drive names via the shell? Hmmm. [Update: So I typed "cd " in the terminal, and dragged MyShare to it. It filled it in as "CD /Volumes/DFS-6" instead of the sharename. Whew, how can we deal with that when the name to access the share will CHANGE depending on which volumes were mounted first? That's goofed up.] __________________ :: I yam Popeye of Borg. :: :: Prepares ta be akskimilgrated. :: Last edited by dzurn; 10-12-2012 at 02:19 PM. Reason: Additional goofiness detected.

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10-14-2012, 05:23 AM	#3
agentx Hall of Famer Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Brighton, UK Posts: 3,807	There is a DFS troubleshooting tool that may help. smbutil dfs smb://FQDN/share Maybe it might help diagnose what is going on.