[Samba] Highly-available file server question..

[Daniel Müller]

To have something like dfs in the windows server world does: you have to
use something like cluster and drbd master master and two samba
servers/openldap in
master server repl. or master master

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:09:31 -0400, simo <idra at samba.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:52 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:19:36AM +1030, Indexer wrote:
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>> > On 20/10/2010, at 4:31 AM, John_Delisle at ceridian.ca wrote:
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>> > > I wasn't sure DFS was a good fit, my understanding of DFS is
limited 
>> > > (reading up today..). 
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>> > As i understood it, Samba does not support DFS? Am i wrong? I have
>> > done some googling into this and cant find any results about it.
>> 
>> Yes you are wrong. Samba supports DFS.
> 
> Samba supports the DFS mechanism but I think that some Windows Admins
> tend to also imply the related File Replication when they say DFS.
> 
> We do not support the File Replication Protocol, yet.
> 
> Simo.
> 
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> Simo Sorce
> Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo at samba.org>
> Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <simo at redhat.com>