+<samba:parameter name="ldap ref follow" context="G" type="enum"
+ advanced="1" developer="1"
+ xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
+
+<description>
+
+ <para>This option controls whether to follow LDAP referrals or not when
+ searching for entries in the LDAP database. Possible values are
+ <emphasis>on</emphasis> to enable following referrals,
+ <emphasis>off</emphasis> to disable this, and
+ <emphasis>auto</emphasis>, to use the libldap default settings.
+ libldap's choice of following referrals or not is set in
+ /etc/openldap/ldap.conf with the REFERRALS parameter as documented in
+ ldap.conf(5).</para>
+
+</description>
+
+<value type="default">auto</value>
+<value type="example">off</value>
+
+</samba:parameter>