[Samba] SAMBA & CTDB Configuration Issue using LDAP as back end.

[Gerry George]

I have setup a SAMBA 3 cluster (running on SLES-11sp3) with 2 nodes. CTDB
is managing SAMBA, using a floating IP between the two hosts. Everything is
running fine as far as the cluster fail-over, etc. However, the SAMBA
cluster server(s) are supposed to be member servers, connecting to an
existing PDC which is using LDAP as the password backend.

CTDB is inserting the following lines into the smb.conf file once it starts
SAMBA on a given node:


 # CTDB-RA: Begin auto-generated section (do not change below)
 passdb backend = tdbsam
 clustering = yes
 idmap backend = tdb2
 ctdbd socket = /var/lib/ctdb/ctdb.socket
 fileid:algorithm = fsid
 # CTDB-RA: End auto-generated section (do not change above)


Unfortunately, even when I change the entries to


passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://LDAP-Server
   idmap backend = ldap:ldap://LDAP-Server


CTDB rewrites it to the tdbsam entries upon take-over/failover to that
node.

I have searched, but can't find any configuration option to override this,
although the documentation says that you can use either tdbsam or ldap as
the back-end for CTDB-managed SAMBA clusters.


Has anyone dealt with this issue before?

George-G