Samba Clustering

[Todd]

Thanks for the quick feedback!    True....I do have dual NICs installed on 
each node....i checked the man pages for smbd and nmbd...but I didn't see 
the smbd switch to which you are referring.   If I use the proposed 
switch..will it hinder browsing on Windows client?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Siim Põder" <windo at p6drad-teel.net>
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Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: Samba Clustering


> 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
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