RESOLVED: (sorta) Re: [Samba] Oplocks question
Toby Bluhm
tkb at alltechmedusa.com
Tue Jun 9 19:46:25 GMT 2009
Terry Haley wrote:
> Actually Dan that helps a lot. It tells me the amount of work and effort
> it takes to bend this application in order to fit a mold it was not
> intended for. In the end, I decided to bite the bullet and make my PDC
> double as my primary file server. 45 mins of swapping an FC-nic,
> remapping the lvm's and reconfiguring the smb.conf in order to make this
> a non-issue and prevent more complexity proliferation is well worth it.
> It's a shame it doesn't handle remote file systems more elegantly.
>
Here are the steps:
configure the 2nd samba server as a client, join it to the domain, add a
dfs enabled share, dfs enable the PDC, create the filesystem link(s), done.
Should take 5 minutes.
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tkb
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