samba cluster active-active configuration.

Nir Livni nirl at cyber-ark.com
Tue Mar 25 08:55:54 GMT 2003


Hi all,
Sorry for posting this one here, I guess it is a bit out of topic,
But I tried about 4 or 5 other mailing lists - no luck yet.

I'm trying to configure my samba on a RedHat AS 2.1, to run in an
active-active configuration. The "Red Hat Cluster Manager Installation and
Administration Guide" says on chapter 6.2 : "Allows the setup of an
active-active configuration to maximize equipment utilization. More details
on active-active configurations appear below." But - no luck for me :-) ,
because no such details appear below...

My questions are:
1. How do I make samba run in active-active configuration ?
2. What happens to nmbd - which node runs this one ? (I guess both of them
can't)
3. Should the netbios name be the same for both nodes ? 
   Is there an netbios name alias option so both nodes will be accessed by
same netbios name ?
4. In case I use security = domain, and my node names are RHCLU0 and RHCLU1
, should I add both of them as a computer account in my domain ? Do I also
need an alias for them ?

Your help is appreciated
Nir


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