Hi Bill,
I am using clustered samba printing for a couple of years and it works fine,
this is my setup:
3 sun server with sun cluster, let's call them samba1 samba2 and samba3 are
individually joined to the windows domain using the hostnames samba1/2/3.
Through the sun cluster they use together a shared address called 'printserver'
with the 'bind interface only' option set to the shared hostname I have a
loadbalanced samba setup for printing.
To make sure all server use the same config I have 'ntforms.tdb',
'printers.tdb' and 'ntdrivers.tdb' on a shared global storage, linked via
symlink into the three local samba/var/locks dirs. The 'samba printcap' is
shared globally as well as the 'drivers' dir of cause.
One thing about this construction is that samba1/2/3 still and always publish
the printers over ther local ip adress though they will not accept a connection
over these adresses. You need a firewall to get rid of this or unconfigure
those printer in the AD.
For some reason I have a cron restart running every morning, this is nice to
get rid of old processes and connections and to have a fresh start from the
ground for all three nodes...
Hope this helps, don't hesitate to write me e-mail if you have further
questions, well and maybe I got it all wrong and there is a much more clever
idea about clustered printing, love to hear something about it then
;)
cheers
christoph
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Bill Morris wrote:
Hi Folks,
I'm part of a Novell department that is working on
moving from Novell NDPS printing to Samba printing.
I have been told that the Samba environment will
have to be clustered to assure the same level of
redundancy for printing.
Does anyone have any pointers? Whether actual
experience in this or a location of good
documentation of the clustering process?
Thanks for any assistance,
Bill Morris
Bill Morris (bill_mor...@ncsu.edu)
Systems & Hosted Systems
North Carolina State University
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~ christoph
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