[Samba] about samba failover

[Davor Vusir]

2014-06-26 10:27 GMT+02:00 steve <steve at steve-ss.com>:
> 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
>
>
It does seem that Samba lacks support for DFS management with the MMC.
Trying RSAT gives the error "The RPC server is unavailable.".

Regards
Davor

>
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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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