[Samba] samba ctdb clustering with ldap backend?

[Jim McDonough]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Daniel Müller <mueller at tropenklinik.de> wrote:
> My both ldap server run in multi master replication mode.
> So I think everything  should be the same on both servers all the time?
> So it could work anyway?
No, you run the risk of collisions, because of the replication delay
between servers.  You need something fully synchronous, unless you're
going to take care of conflicts yourself, including any files that
might have been created on different nodes with the same uid by
different SIDs.

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> Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. April 2011 19:01
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> Betreff: Re: [Samba] samba ctdb clustering with ldap backend?
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> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Daniel Müller <mueller at tropenklinik.de>
> wrote:
>> I have two samba servers auth agains ldap, so I use:
>> idmap backend = ldap:ldap://127.0.0.1
>>
>> Is it possible to setup ctdb to run with a ldap backend?
> I don't see why not.  The point of tdb2 was to not get different
> uids/gids on different nodes.  However, you'd need to have only one
> ldap server that they all use.  Your current setup would not work.
>
>> I know ctdb uses:
>> idmap backend = tdb2
>>
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