[Samba] Redundant ldap idmap backend possible?

simo idra at samba.org
Fri Apr 20 13:16:42 GMT 2007


On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 14:23 +0200, Lars Berntzon wrote:
> Hi, I have just started to turn my Linux boxes over to use winbind for
> authentication and ldap based idmap backend servers (open-ldap). As far as I
> understand the documentation (for version 3.0.23c) it is only possible to
> specify one ldap server, mine config line looks like: 
> 
>  
> 
> idmap backend = ldap:ldap://idmap.xelerated.com
> 
>  
> 
> I did try to map the idmap.xelerated.com entry in DNS to two servers, but it
> only uses the first entry returned from the DNS-servern.
> 
>  
> 
> I want my environment to work even if one of the LDAP-servers goes down, how
> do I make implement redundancy?


IIRC:
ldap:"ldap://server1,ldap://server2"

Simo.

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