A long time ago I did "HOWTO centOS 5.5 samba4 dns dynamic update/Replication" this list. This can help you on your way. The first trick is to have failover DNS working. Did you? To replicate GPOs is a difficult thing even in a W2008 Server environment: A link: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/understanding-group-poli cy-replication.html. I tried to do this with a drbd volume replicating master master the: Sysvol\<domainname>\Policies of the two nodes. At that time samba4 does not support DFS-R or FSR so I used drbd (could be glusterfs as well, advantage more than 2 nodes).
Good Luck Daniel ----------------------------------------------- EDV Daniel Müller Leitung EDV Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus Paul-Lechler-Str. 24 72076 Tübingen Tel.: 07071/206-463, Fax: 07071/206-499 eMail: [email protected] Internet: www.tropenklinik.de ----------------------------------------------- -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Dieter Modig Gesendet: Montag, 29. August 2011 09:34 An: [email protected] Betreff: [Samba] Why using several Samba4 servers? Hi! We're trying to figure out the best way to use samba4 in our environment and after testing back and forth we are now left with a question; why would we want to have several samba4 servers? The environment is one HQ with multiple branch offices where each branch office as a network connection to HQ with at least a 2Mbit DSL. The initial idea was to put a samba4 DC in every branch office to lighten the load on HQ DC and network connection. However after having tested this we couldn't get failover/reduncency to work as we figured it should. We set up the first DC added clients, users, policies and profiles. Worked like a charm. Added a second DC and then made sure all log files said replication was OK and we could see the second DC in administration tools. So then we took the first DC offline and naturally things like policies stopped working (since clients ask for specific DNS entries and those point to the first DC). Reading up on howtos, googling like mad and thinking about this we found no real way to make this work as our initial idea. So the question remains; is there any point in running more than one Samba4 DC for redundancy/load balacing issues or is the only point to have it as a backup? Regards, /Dieter -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
