[Samba] about samba failover

[Davor Vusir]

2014-06-27 2:35 GMT+02:00 Chan Min Wai <dcmwai at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> DFS is possible, but there are some bugs with it (not sure if it is fixed
> yet)
> it will work only with administrator users :)
>
> Thank You.
>

DFS works. I've got a working setup with Folder Redirection and Offline Folders.

I believe steve is asking whether it's possible to manage DFS with the
DFS Management MMC.

Regards
Davor

>
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 4:27 PM, steve <steve at steve-ss.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 10:18 +0200, Daniel Müller wrote:
>> > Drbd does work for Samba3!
>> > DFs in Samba does not replicate data. It just does something like, if
>> server
>> > X/share is not there use server Y/share.
>> >
>> > Greetings Daniel
>> >
>> Hi Thanks
>> That's no problem, we'll do the replication of the data. What we'd like
>> is what windows has. You can specify \\domain\dfs\share and it finds a
>> server in the domain with the share. Really easy. I suppose it's a
>> nightmare to code though, if it can be done at all. Do we have anything
>> like that in samba?
>> Cheers,
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > EDV Daniel Müller
>> >
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>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> > Von: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org]
>> Im
>> > Auftrag von steve
>> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 26. Juni 2014 10:12
>> > An: samba at lists.samba.org
>> > Betreff: Re: [Samba] about samba failover
>> >
>> > On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 09:08 +1100, me at electronico.nc wrote:
>> > > Hi all,
>> > >
>> > > As many of us, I'm trying to find a way to have a failover solution
>> > > for a Samba domain.
>> > >
>> > > The actual choice has been (because of hardware cost) to have only 1
>> > > physical xen-based server (ubuntu 14.04) that do (dom0) :
>> > > - DHCP server (LAN)
>> > > - NTP server
>> > > - firewall
>> > > - proxy
>> > > - DNS server
>> > > Then 4 VMs running for:
>> > > - Samba Domain controller
>> > > - Samba Domain member (file server)
>> > > - Apache2 server
>> > > - email server
>> > >
>> > > As all eggs are in the same basket (French talking), I've setup a 2nd
>> > > xen-based server that uses DRBD/Pacemaker to provide the basic dom0
>> > > functions.
>> > >
>> > > Now it's time about Samba ...
>> > > ( I've read : https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Clustered_Samba )  From
>> > > other readings, it seems that GlusterFS is not actually a valid
>> > > solution (permissions troubles from Windows side).
>> > > I was wondering if setting up Samba VMs that would use a RAID1 DRBD
>> > > network (RAID1 between xen-host1 and xen-host2) filesystem would be an
>> > > acceptable solution.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
>> > >
>> > > Nicolas
>> > >
>> > >
>> > Hi
>> > Sorry that this is just a 'me too' but I've been trying to get
>> information
>> > on failover too. This may give you some ideas other than clustering as I
>> > believe that drdb will not wor with samba.
>> >
>> > Evidently dfs can be used for this. I know it works great on windows DCs
>> and
>> > file servers but try as I may, I cannot get a single answer from either
>> the
>> > cifs nor samba lists on anything t do with it on samba. Here is what I've
>> > tried so far:
>> >
>> > https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2014-June/182371.html
>> > https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2014-June/182387.html
>> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cifs/9768/match=domain+dfs
>> >
>> > HTH
>> > Steve
>> >
>> >
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