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

[J. Echter]

Am 30.05.2014 21:48, schrieb 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
Hi,

 i have samba running on cluster nodes too.

I have them running without samba clustering, i have services running on
node 1, if node 1 goes down node 2 takes over.

Works very well!

Cheers

juergen