[Samba] about samba failover

[steve]

On Sat, 2014-06-28 at 08:13 +0200, Davor Vusir wrote:
> 2014-06-27 2:35 GMT+02:00 Chan Min Wai <dcmwai at gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > DFS is possible, but there are some bugs with it (not sure if it is fixed
> > yet)
> > it will work only with administrator users :)
> >
> > Thank You.
> >
> 
> DFS works. I've got a working setup with Folder Redirection and Offline Folders.
> 
> I believe steve is asking whether it's possible to manage DFS with the
> DFS Management MMC.

Hi
The links we sent show that dfs on Samba does not works as dfs on m$.
Domain based dfs is not possible (At least we can't get it to work) and
failover does not work if the first server in a share is not available.
Conclusion: dfs cannot be used as a failover solution with samba servers
and Linux clients.

Please tell us we're wrong;)

Cheers,
Steve

> 
> Regards
> Davor
> 
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 4:27 PM, steve <steve at steve-ss.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 10:18 +0200, Daniel Müller wrote:
> >> > Drbd does work for Samba3!
> >> > DFs in Samba does not replicate data. It just does something like, if
> >> server
> >> > X/share is not there use server Y/share.
> >> >
> >> > Greetings Daniel
> >> >
> >> Hi Thanks
> >> That's no problem, we'll do the replication of the data. What we'd like
> >> is what windows has. You can specify \\domain\dfs\share and it finds a
> >> server in the domain with the share. Really easy. I suppose it's a
> >> nightmare to code though, if it can be done at all. Do we have anything
> >> like that in samba?
> >> Cheers,
> >> Steve
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >> > EDV Daniel Müller
> >> >
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> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> >> > Von: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org]
> >> Im
> >> > Auftrag von steve
> >> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 26. Juni 2014 10:12
> >> > An: samba at lists.samba.org
> >> > Betreff: Re: [Samba] about samba failover
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 09:08 +1100, me at electronico.nc wrote:
> >> > > Hi all,
> >> > >
> >> > > As many of us, I'm trying to find a way to have a failover solution
> >> > > for a Samba domain.
> >> > >
> >> > > The actual choice has been (because of hardware cost) to have only 1
> >> > > physical xen-based server (ubuntu 14.04) that do (dom0) :
> >> > > - DHCP server (LAN)
> >> > > - NTP server
> >> > > - firewall
> >> > > - proxy
> >> > > - DNS server
> >> > > Then 4 VMs running for:
> >> > > - Samba Domain controller
> >> > > - Samba Domain member (file server)
> >> > > - Apache2 server
> >> > > - email server
> >> > >
> >> > > As all eggs are in the same basket (French talking), I've setup a 2nd
> >> > > xen-based server that uses DRBD/Pacemaker to provide the basic dom0
> >> > > functions.
> >> > >
> >> > > Now it's time about Samba ...
> >> > > ( I've read : https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Clustered_Samba )  From
> >> > > other readings, it seems that GlusterFS is not actually a valid
> >> > > solution (permissions troubles from Windows side).
> >> > > I was wondering if setting up Samba VMs that would use a RAID1 DRBD
> >> > > network (RAID1 between xen-host1 and xen-host2) filesystem would be an
> >> > > acceptable solution.
> >> > >
> >> > > Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
> >> > >
> >> > > Nicolas
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > Hi
> >> > Sorry that this is just a 'me too' but I've been trying to get
> >> information
> >> > on failover too. This may give you some ideas other than clustering as I
> >> > believe that drdb will not wor with samba.
> >> >
> >> > Evidently dfs can be used for this. I know it works great on windows DCs
> >> and
> >> > file servers but try as I may, I cannot get a single answer from either
> >> the
> >> > cifs nor samba lists on anything t do with it on samba. Here is what I've
> >> > tried so far:
> >> >
> >> > https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2014-June/182371.html
> >> > https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2014-June/182387.html
> >> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cifs/9768/match=domain+dfs
> >> >
> >> > HTH
> >> > Steve
> >> >
> >> >
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