VFS_EXPAND_MSDFS(8)

💖 VFS_EXPAND_MSDFS 💖

okay bestie, welcome to vfs_expand_msdfs(8) — a System Administration tools page and honestly? it's giving "tiny module, huge brain". let's get into it 🧚

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✨ NAME ✨

vfs_expand_msdfs — expand msdfs links depending on client IP 🌈

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

vfs objects = expand_msdfs

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so first things first: this VFS module is part of the samba(7) suite. she's a team player like that 💅

Here's the tea 👑 — normally you'd think the link target is just, like, a server and a share, right? Nope. With this module, the target is expected to reference a file, and that file contains a table. The file gets referenced by means of the msdfs symlink target, and it goes a little something like this:

msdfs:@table-filename@/share

The file table-filename is supposed to contain a list of destinations, and bestie, they get looked at from top to bottom:

192.168.234 local.samba.org
192.168 remote.samba.org
 default.samba.org

With this, clients from network 192.168.234/24 are redirected to host local.samba.org, clients from 192.168/16 are redirected to remote.samba.org, and all other clients go to default.samba.org. no cap, it's literally just a lil "who are you → okay go here" vibe check for every client that walks in 🌸

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

This man page is part of version 4.24.7-Ubuntu-4.24.7+dfsg-1ubuntu1 of the Samba suite. 💜

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed. iconic behaviour, truly 🫶

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💀 reminder bestie: keep every detail exactly as written — table-filename, the whole symlink syntax, every IP range, every hostname. the vibe is cute but the facts are sacred. periodt.

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that's the whole page!! 🍓 mwah 💖

this one's from Samba 4.24.7-Ubuntu-4.24.7+dfs, dated 09/13/2026, and yeah — it really does say VFS_EXPAND_MSDFS(8) down there at the bottom. slay ✨