[Samba] about samba failover

[Chan Min Wai]

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.


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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> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > 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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