[Samba] Samba failover

daniel.jarboe at custserv.com daniel.jarboe at custserv.com
Thu Feb 6 13:35:28 GMT 2003


Well, I was wondering how to setup samba installations to provide
fail-over for linux boxes that will be acting as a print-server for
windows clients in an NT Domain (windows PDC and WINS servers).  I
didn't see any ideas in The Unofficial Samba Howto and the Samba-
HOWTO-Collection.  I was thinking having two print-servers NATed
behind a linux router, and have the linux router do port forwarding
on 137-139 to the main samba print-server, which talks to LPRng to
talk to network attached printers.  If the samba print-server goes
down then switch the port-forwarding destination to the backup box
with a similar configuration.

What are the better ways?
If there aren't any (which I doubt), is this even workable (I'm not
sure having these two samba servers with the same netbios name, etc,
is workable).

Thanks for any ideas,
~ Daniel








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