[Samba]RE: can samba be used in clustering

[Dwight Tovey]

On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 02:57, Girish R S wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for the reply. u have certainly answered my doubt from the server
> aspect ie the configuration on Solaris.
> The other prob that i have is -
> one of my solaris hostname is - sasd04
> the other solaris is - sass04
> 
> So on installing samba i see that they appear in my network neighbourhood as
> sasd04 and sass04.
> initially sasd04 is active. so i map sasd04 to one of my drives and copy the
> files using batch files. if sasd04 crashes and sass04 comes up, any idea how
> i can copy the files without mannual intervension.
> if i can actually make the solaris appear as their ip addr(which is floating
> ip) on my PC, this would solve it.But is it possible????

Assign a third name (say 'sasv04') to the floating IP address.  Users
will access the service via that "Virtual" name instead of the "Phyical"
names.  That way you can move the service from one physical machine to
another without the users ever knowing the difference.

BTW: That is also why you would have multiple smbd processes running. 
One for the physical machine name (if you need to get at shares that are
only available on the physical box), and one for the virtual machine
name when it is attached to that box.

	/dwight

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