[Samba] Second SAMBA Server different NETBIOS alias and shares for ClearCase

[Gary Dale]

You can also try SWAT. It has a wizard for this purpose.


Hoferer, Patrick K. wrote:

>You're totally right about my poor terminology. I need to do is join the
>CC SAMBA server to the Primary SAMBA Server's authentication. I have the
>HowTo Guide and it has a step by step on joining as a Domain Member
>Server. I'll test it out.
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>...RTM...Pat.....
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>Thank you for your help. :)
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gary Dale [mailto:garydale at torfree.net] 
>Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 4:20 PM
>To: Hoferer, Patrick K.
>Cc: samba at lists.samba.org; Bailey, Alonza; Kdeiss, Raymond E.
>Subject: Re: [Samba] Second SAMBA Server different NETBIOS alias and
>shares for ClearCase
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>Hoferer, Patrick K. wrote:
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>>I have a SAMBA Server utilizing an LDAP backend for user authentication
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>>and it works great unless I use ClearCase. When ClearCase is used the 
>>compilation time for our code is slowed down to a crawl and the 
>>ClearCase application is rendered nearly useless. As a test fix my boss
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>>wants me to create a second SAMBA server to be used for only the 
>>ClearCase server.
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>>I don't know if this will work, but I may be able to accomplish my task
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>>if I set the "os level" lower than my primary SAMBA server set the SID 
>>to the same as my existing server. I then change the "netbios alias" to
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>>"clearcase". I'll then add my views and vobs through either NFS or SANS
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>>client to the ClearCase SAMBA server. This way if a workstation using 
>>ClearCase needs  to use the \\clearcase\views share it will utilize the
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>>ClearCase SAMBA server not the primary server. All authentication 
>>should remain through my LDAP server since I did not change the SIDs 
>>for my server or user accounts.
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>>If this plan sound feasible please let me know. If it sounds like I may
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>>break my existing architecture let me know. If you have better 
>>suggestions I am looking for any help.
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>>Thank you for your time,
>>Patrick Hoferer
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>I don't think you're being very clear. In Windows terms, you log into a
>domain, not a server. It sounds like you want to maintain the same
>authentication but split an application off onto a different server to
>improve performance. However, it's not clear if you want to use Samba or
>NFS to share the files. I'm going to assume that the new server will be
>providing file services through Samba.
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>If you want the ClearCase server to use the same authentication, just
>make it a member server in your existing domain. Stop the ClearCase
>Samba shares on the old server and start them on the new one.
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