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1. Add shared folders to side bar mac os 10.11 mac os x#
2. Add shared folders to side bar mac os 10.11 series#

In fact, this yields quite a bit of interesting output, not least of which are a list of known servers and, for each DFS mount point, a list of known stores and (most important of which) the real server and share names. I eventually hit upon rpcclient (a low-level RPC tool included with Leopard), and after reading through portions of the source and data structure documentation, I established that asking for info level 3 when querying a known DFS server like so: $ rpcclient -U 'domain\user' -command='dfsenum 3' known_server

Add shared folders to side bar mac os 10.11 series#

My initial idea was to do a series of packet traces and figure out which RPC calls and Active Directory lookups standard Windows machines did, and wing it from there.

Given the lack of information available (I have never been able to find a solution for this on Google) and my long history running and troubleshooting Samba, one morning I decided to find a solution, or else. Having endured for years the nuisance of having to check my Windows machine’s obtuse property dialog boxes to manually resolve pathnames such as \\domain\fs\share into something like \\server\hidden$\share that I could actually mount on my Mac (as smb://server/hidden$/share, of course), I eventually decided to do something about it.

Add shared folders to side bar mac os 10.11 mac os x#

Microsoft’s DFS, aptly described in many places 1 is the bane of many a Mac user in corporate settings, since there is no way to resolve DFS paths via the “ GUI”:Wikipedia:GUI in a standard Mac OS X install.

If you want the source to his tool, I’ve attached a tarball here for your convenience.Īlso, Ægir Örn Símonarson wrote in mentioning that if you know the root DFS share, you can find the root server hostname like so: $ smbclient -c showconnect -user='domain_name\user_name' "\\\\domain_name\\root_share\\" Update: Lion now supports DFS natively and Jorge Escala has a better solution for Snow Leopard ( blog post), so the text below is now kept merely for historical purposes. Updated June 18 th 2012, in the afternoon