[Samba] Share access problem from 3.4.0 (solved)

[Arendt, Volker]

Hi Bill,

Due to my upcoming holiday i will not be able to work on the CTDB project. ;-)

I will contact you again in September, somewhere from the 21st of September ongoing.

Cheers

Volker 

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: William Jojo [mailto:w.jojo at hvcc.edu] 
Gesendet: Montag, 27. Juli 2009 17:57
An: Arendt, Volker
Cc: Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE; samba at lists.samba.org
Betreff: Re: AW: AW: [Samba] Share access problem from 3.4.0 (solved)

Arendt, Volker wrote:
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> please let me know when your AMP bundle is done and you have the 3.4.0 
> ctdb-samba version packaged. Then we could go to work and find out how 
> a "best practice" for setting up a clustered samba on AIX needs to 
> look like. :-)
>

Ok, perhaps we could add/supplement to these docs?

http://pware.hvcc.edu/AIX-Samba.pdf

These also need to be updated to include some additional backends that have been released since 3.2. But everything listed there works very nicely.


Cheers,
Bill


> regards
>
> Volker
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: William Jojo [mailto:w.jojo at hvcc.edu]
> Gesendet: Mo 27.07.2009 17:26
> An: Arendt, Volker
> Cc: Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE; samba at lists.samba.org
> Betreff: Re: AW: [Samba] Share access problem from 3.4.0 (solved)
>
> Arendt, Volker wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > as it happens very often the problem sits about 30 centimeters from
> > the monitor (thanks for that, Volker)!
> >
> > I incorrectly assumed that i can access the same directory on a GPFS
> > file system from two different nodes. As such my current "problem" is
> > solved. Currently we have to isolate access to a directory on GPFS to
> > a single node.
> >
> > My next steps would be to setup CTDB and SAMBA on AIX. But the
> > documentation is not suited for a AIX install as it is very linux
> > based. I would be willing to cooperate to build the documentation and
> > a reference installation for AIX.
> >
> > How about you, Bill? Shall we give it a try?! ;-)
> >
>
> Indeed I would. :-) I have passed some patches back upstream for AIX,
> but I am completing a test for broken libgpfs.a before they can be
> included. In the meantime, I've been successful with a
> pware53{-64}.clustered-samba.rte 3.3.4.0 (32- and 64-bit).
>
> I can work on the 3.4 version later today since my patch set is against
> this level. I'm finishing up an AMP refresh I can't wait to get off my
> plate. :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>
>
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Volker
> >
> >
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Volker Lendecke [mailto:Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE]
> > Gesendet: Mo 27.07.2009 15:47
> > An: Arendt, Volker
> > Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Betreff: Re: [Samba] Share access problem from 3.4.0
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 03:19:15PM +0200, Arendt, Volker wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > we have a public share for all of our users. The share definition 
> is as
> > > follows:
> > >
> > > [public]
> > > comment =
> > > browseable = yes
> > > writeable = yes
> > > path = /gpfs/fbb/apps/public
> > > force group = @BUILTIN+Users
> > > valid users = @BUILTIN+Users
> > > write list = @BUILTIN+Users
> > >
> > > All of our data resides on a GPFS file system. The share is 
> defined and
> > > accessed on a AIX 5.3.10 node with samba 3.0.26a. Here users do 
> not have
> > > any problem.
> > >
> > > A second node with AIX 5.3.10 and samba 3.4.0 provides the same share.
> > > Users cannot access the public share via this system.
> > >
> > > What could be the problem?
> >
> > No idea without logfiles.
> >
> > Just to make 100% sure: The "path=" you're pointing to is
> > different from the 3.0.26a node, right? Otherwise you're
> > forcing your users to destroy their data. You might want to
> > take a look at ctdb.samba.org.
> >
> > Volker
> >
> >
>
>