[Samba] Samba server in a failover environment

[Oktay Akbal]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Hsu, Cheng (Consultant) wrote:

> The failover environment works like this:
> .  I manually start up Samba daemons (smbd and nmbd) on server-a
> .  Users are able to map Samba shares to their PCs, and they can read and
> write
> .  While users have their files open, I manually stop all Samba daemons on
> server-a
> .  Then, I manually start up Samba daemons (smbd and nmbd) on server-b
> (note that server-a and server-b have the same smb.conf file under
> /usr/local/samba/lib)

> Our UNIX SAs and NT SAs told me that it is not required to explicitly join
> the NT domain
> after failover.    But my experiment shows that I MUST explicitly join the
> NT domain
> in order for everything to work.

Just a guess: Make sure that the server do not only have the same
smb.conf, but also the same SID (MACHINE.SID or whatever setup of samba
you use)

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Oktay Akbal