RESOLVED: (sorta) Re: [Samba] Oplocks question
Remy Zandwijk
remy.zandwijk at falw.vu.nl
Wed Jun 10 06:41:43 GMT 2009
Toby Bluhm wrote:
> 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.
True. But keep in mind that Mac OS X machines won't follow DFS links. At least
until 10.5.6.
-Remy
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