Hi
I've no idea if
anyone can help with this, or if it's even a good idea, but I'll give it a
go..........
I've been charged
with providing a level of fail-over with a Samba implementation, and without
going down the shared storage/cluster approach it was suggested that we consider
using the File Replication Service in Win2k to mirror a complete share tree from
the primary SMB server to the failover SMB server (effectively a hot standby, no
load balancing or AA clustering required).
The problem we've
come accross is that once the DFS root has been created (hosted by a Win2k
server), the primary SMB server can be added as a 'link' to the root (and the
failover) (and the DFS link opened through a DFS client), however, when an
attempt is made to configure the replication between the two links (rather the
point of the whole exercise), Win2k is reporting that 'the RPC server is
unavailable'...........and simply refuses to allow replication to be configured
between the two SMB servers.
I guess I'd like to
ask, has
anybody attempted this before and got it working ?
All we really
require is the ability to replicate a tree structure from one SMB server to
another in effectively real-time, and the above approach would be
sufficient. I realise that there are almost certainly other approaches
that would be faster and didn't involve Win2k servers, however my Linux
knowledge is limited (though greatly improved in the last few
months).
Currently i'm
building with Mandrake v9 and the SMB rpms that ship with said
distribution. The file system for the SMB shares is XFS with ACL support
enabled (I believe some replication daemons don't function with XFS hence the
mentioning)
Any suggestions
welcome
Regards
Alex
Robinson
