Samba Clustering

[Siim Põder]

Yo!

Todd wrote:
> The only caveat has been that when both are online  (that is..in
> active/passive mode and under heartbeat control), you can see the
> passive cluster node printer shares alongside the active node's 13
> printer shares in the form of  printershare at nodename.   Each share is
> duplicated!  What were shooting for is transparency and I'm beginning
> to wonder if we're chasing after the wind.  I've seen a few claims of
> Samba clustering with Novell iPrint and Lifekeeper software vendors.
> (If anyone has experience with those products, please let me know.)

This is more of a samba-specific issue. My first guess would be that
nmbd is listening on 0.0.0.0 interface and your server has more than one
interface to windows network configured - VIP interface and another one
(perhaps for administration). I think nmbd does so by default, even if
you have set smbd to listen on a specific interface - there is a
configuration option to disable this behaviour.

> The available open source software may not be evolved enough to
> accomplish this kind of cluster implementation.    I would really
> appreciate an insightful answer on this as soon as conveniently
> possible.

Or did I oversimplify the problem in some aspect?

Siim Põder