They live on a Samba/LDAP server. All users /home dirs are exported from the Samba/LDAP server to the application servers (Edubuntu) via NFS. I only have one Samba/LDAP server which backs up to another server constantly, but it's also very easy to set up slaves/BDC's. My Windows Terminal Server also auth's to the Samba/LDAP server as the Samba/LDAP server is also the PDC. I wrote this page to help someone with setting up a Windows Terminal Server and using Samba/LDAP, but it explains in detail what I do....complete with diagram.
http://www.vcsvikings.org/smbldap-diagram/ HTH! :-) Edubuntu Devel Group <[email protected]> writes: >Hi, > >On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, David Trask wrote: > >> two same or slighly lesser servers running in dhcp failover/load >balancing >> mode..... > >> If one server fails....no biggie....the other will take over until it >> comes back online. >> >> What I run at my school.... >> >> Two Dual Xeon servers with 4gb RAM and fast SCSI HD's (15k rpm) with >> gigabit ethernet to gigabit switches. These servers are running in the >> dhcp failover/load balance mode I mentioned above. > >Our of curiosity, where do you store users' home directories? Are they >stored on a third NAS machine or do you have some sort of data mirroring >between the servers? > >One could easily fall into the trap of having them on one server, nfs >mirrored to the other. This is not bad, except that the servers aren't >really redundant then as if the server with the home directories goes >down, >the other one might as well be down. > >It might be good enough for most people to simply rsync the data from one >server to another each night and lose the day's data in the event of such >a >problem. > >I've often wondered about good "redundant network filesystem" solutions >which would address this, ie having the data stored live on both servers, >read-write so that either server could go down and service would continue. >I know they exist, but it seems quite messy. > >Gavin > > >-- >edubuntu-devel mailing list >[email protected] >Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel David N. Trask Technology Teacher/Director Vassalboro Community School [EMAIL PROTECTED] (207)923-3100 -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
