[Samba] load balancing CIFS/Samba

[Javid Abdul-AJAVID1]

when you are running samba , you will start nmbd also which resolves your
unix host on which samba running as netbios
each time client access \\foo\bar, dns will send the request one by one as
you list ips.

-----Original Message-----
From: Blue Lang [mailto:blue at b-side.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 4:53 AM
To: Javid Abdul-AJAVID1
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: RE: [Samba] load balancing CIFS/Samba


On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 wrote:

> create round robin alias with different IP address for different nodes
> you dont have to put same nmb server name

i haven't tried that yet, but my intuition is that that would make it 
impossible to, for instance, mount the same share from multiple windows 
hosts. ie

start->run->\\foo.b-side.org\bar

would not resolve, because windows demands an nmb lookup, even after the
host has been resolved via ip. is this not correct?

thanks!

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blue Lang [mailto:blue at b-side.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 4:16 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] load balancing CIFS/Samba
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> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm trying out some ideas for loadbalancing Samba servers with some 
> replication underneath. Right now, we're trying to use DNS round robin, 
> just to see if it works, but it isn't.
> 
> Our basic config is that we have the same share and NMB server name on 
> every node. Each node has a different IP hostname, which are all 
> round-robin'ed to a single hostname. When we try to do requests from 
> clients on the same subnet, everything grinds to a halt. It looks like all

> of our requests are being responded to by every node.
> 
> Does that make sense? Does anyone have any insight into loadbalancing CIFS

> that they might share?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Blue Lang
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