[Samba] Fileserver Failover with AD and Gluster

[Marc Muehlfeld]

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Am 02.02.2015 um 13:30 schrieb Sven Schwedas:
> On 2015-02-02 12:56, Lars Hanke wrote:
>> I currently plan to move my storage to Gluster. One of the
>> anticipated advantages is to have Gluster replicate data among
>> physical nodes, i.e. if one node dies the file service can live
>> on.
>> 
>> AD for authentication also replicates nice on distinct physical
>> nodes.
>> 
>> So the remaining single point of failure is the samba file
>> service. Is there something more intelligent than:
>> 
>> if not \\severA\share -> try: \\serverB\share?
> 
> Use a common domain name for both servers (what AD does internally
> for authentication), or use IP-based failover via Samba's CTDB.


For Member Servers, you can use a clustred Samba installation with CTDB.
But you can't on Samba AD DCs, because it's not compatible with CTDB.


Regards,
Marc

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