When accessing my Windows DFS share on my Mac machine, it shows empty folder

Vikas Pushkar 96 Reputation points
2021-02-18T08:06:40.157+00:00

I have a domain server mydomain.com and a DFS server which is part of mydomain.com. DFS server has a share with namespace //mydomain.com/Datashare, which points to a TestData folder inside the machine. TestData has few files 1.txt,2.txt. When i access my DFS share on a windows machine it mounts the share and shows the folder TestData with files 1.txt and 2.txt. When I access same share on my Mac machine it mounts the share and dispalys TestData folder. however it does not show any file inside this folder. Someone discuss a solution of setting same search domain on Mac machine as AD sets on windows but that solution does not work for me.

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  1. Vikas Pushkar 96 Reputation points
    2021-02-19T05:38:09.263+00:00

    i added AD domain to search domain list in /etc/resolv.conf and it started working for me.

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  1. Fan Fan 15,291 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2021-02-19T02:48:42.537+00:00

    Hi,
    Welcome to share here!
    Try the method: smb://domain.com/storage/[share]
    If not , please refer to the following information in the link below.
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    Can Apple, Linux, and other non-MS operating systems connect to DFS Namespaces?

    Best Regards,