Re: AW: [Samba] Samba server in a failover environment

2003-02-14 Thread Oktay Akbal
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Alexander Skwar wrote: Oktay Akbal wrote: shared-storage or nfs (however this is made redundant in his case). Both servers would then have the same tdbs. Hm, this would mean he'd need to introduce a third server which holds the shared storage. And to have this

AW: [Samba] Samba server in a failover environment

2003-02-13 Thread Uli Luckas
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Oktay Akbal wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Hsu, Cheng (Consultant) wrote: But my experiment shows that I MUST explicitly join the NT domain in order for everything to work. Just a guess: Make sure that the server do not only have the same smb.conf, but also the

Re: AW: [Samba] Samba server in a failover environment

2003-02-13 Thread Oktay Akbal
And it is worse... You could probably (r)sync smb.conf, MACHINE.SID plus the domain password (secrets.tdb?) between the two servers and things would work for a while. But you need to do this on a regular basis as the password is updated to a new random password every now and then (default

Re: AW: [Samba] Samba server in a failover environment

2003-02-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Oktay Akbal wrote: shared-storage or nfs (however this is made redundant in his case). Both servers would then have the same tdbs. Hm, this would mean he'd need to introduce a third server which holds the shared storage. And to have this server be secured, he should have a fourth server which