AW: [Samba] Samba server in a failover environment

[Oktay Akbal]

> And it is worse... You could probably (r)sync smb.conf, MACHINE.SID plus the
> domain password (secrets.tdb?) between the two servers and things would work
> for a  while. But you need to do this on a regular basis as the password is
> updated to a new random password every now and then (default once a week?)
> and the secondary server would be out of sync.

Well, this sounds like he should have the samba-environment lying on
shared-storage or nfs (however this is made redundant in his case).
Both servers would then have the same tdbs.

Oktay Akbal