[Samba] Is CIFS HA Aware ?

Shaun Glass shaunglass at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 05:26:08 UTC 2018


Thanks very much.

Regards

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 6:57 PM Aurélien Aptel <aaptel at suse.com> wrote:

> Shaun Glass via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> writes:
> > We use a lot of DFS Shares (Windows) across our Linux Servers. The DFS
> > Shares are setup in a Cluster. Over the weekend we did a DR excercise
> which
> > included shutting down one of the Servers that hosted the DFS Shares.
> >
> > What we found is that any Linux Server that had associated itself with
> the
> > DFS Server that was shutdown did not try and connect to the remaining
> > Server that was up.
> >
> > Is this expected or have we not setup our Linux servers correctly to be
> > aware that there is alternate server should the one fail ?
>
> Yes this is not implemented yet but it's being worked on.
>
> Cheers,
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