Problem 2: Logon failure: unknown username or password.
I have followed the above configuration steps and my users can connect to the SHARE but when they
click on the MS DFS link, they get the following error.
Figure 13: Error returned to the client as a result of a bad username or password on the referred server
To begin troubleshooting this, we must first remember that the user having access to the HP CIFS
Server HOSTING the MS DFS root doesn’t guarantee that that same user will have access to the
server that the MS DFS link will refer him to!
And in fact, the following screen shot of a partial Ethereal trace of the network traffic involved clearly
shows the authentication failure, not at the HP CIFS Server ‘rkm-nt’, but when trying to set up a session
to the ‘referred’ server, ‘mccall’:
Figure 14: Trace showing the result of a MS DFS referral to a link where the client username/password is not recognized
This tells us that either the username or the password that the client is using to connect to the HP CIFS
Server share hosting the MS DFS root is not recognized by the referred server ‘mccall’. You can
