On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:28:50PM -0600, Jack Downes wrote: > Okay, before anything else, all I'm using samba for is a "Windows > looking" frontend to cups. Eg, so the users don't know I'm getting rid > of the windows 2003 printserver and replacing it with a pair of linux > printservers (Samba/Cups) > > I'd like to have 2 (or 3) printservers, all the same build of linux > (debian), cloned, etc. > > users will be able to go to \\printserver and it'll pull up one of > 10.6.0.19, 10.6.0.20, etc. > > Right now this works fine. I've been serving over 505 printers on this > now for 6 months and it's a good thing. The issue I have is growing > this to more than two servers - what if I want to have 5 servers, etc. > > So, to my way of thinking, I'll have an nfs mount that is shared amongst > all the servers - /var/cache/samba, /etc/samba, /etc/cups, > /var/lib/samba, etc - whatever it is that samba changes.
No, don't do that. NFS sucks for Samba data. > Now... I'm guessing I'll need a filesystem able to deal with multiple > servers using that mount as r/w, so maybe it'll be an iscsi mount with > the right fs. That would be something like GFS, glusterfs or some proprietary cluster file system. But I think that would be overkill for your case. > Anyway, what I'm after is to make changes to one server and have it > propagate to all servers. i'm not concerned if I need to have a > "special" server that I make the changes to, or if it's just that I can > make changes to any in the"cluster". i'm hesitant to actually call this > a cluster as I'm not quite sure it's what I'm after. rsync? Printing is separate enough I think so that you can live with an rsync master and have the clients choose one server by dns round-robin or so. Volker
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