is samba LinuxVirtualServer-able?

[Joseph Mack]

Ryan Fox wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your work on LVS.  I've read your howto many times :),

and you're still sane :)

> http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/msdfs_setup.html

Let me go find out about dfs first.

> This sounds to me like it would allow clients to survive a failed load
> balancer fairly well (at least without requiring a reboot), and realserver
> failures would be compensated for by using dfs.  

OK. I presume the function of being domain controller isn't terribly statefull?
All you do it login with a passwd? I assume if you did a bad disconnect 
previously there might be problems (barfing rodents I believe, from Chris)

> that I don't see, I hope it gives the samba people a better idea of what LVS
> does and the LVS people a better idea of what samba does.

I'm glad to find an LVS person on this list so soon.

Thanks Joe
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Joseph Mack PhD, Senior Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin
contractor to the National Environmental Supercomputer Center, 
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