On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 19:28 +0100, Michal Bruncko wrote: > Hello list, > > we have two samba servers on two localities with bigger distance between > them. On both localities there are organizational staff working. And I > am trying to configure homedirectories for all of staff in this way: > - all users will have same beginning part of URL path where is their > homedir located (i.e. \\files.example.com\loginname) for unification and > central acces > - but because the lower speed link between both localities there is need > to locate homedirs: > -- for locality A - on server A on that locality > -- for locality B - on server B on that locality > > fine, thats are requirements. So I have decided to use MSDFS in > combination with [homes] in this way: > - on server A (which will acts as "files.example.com") there will be > homedirs MSDFS links for users on locality B pointed to their real > homedirs on server B (with classic symlink syntax "user_on_locality_B" > -> "msdfs:IP_of_server_B\user_on_locality_B" ) > So if user Bob from locality B will access its homedir, it will be > transparently redirected from Server A to its homedir on closest server B. >
I don't think that will work because a share must be all MSDFS. So the [homes] share on server A cannot serve up both home directory shares to local users and do MSDFS redirection for none local users at the same time. The best way I know of is for their to be a third server say homes.example.com that does MSDFS redirection for all users. It is not doing much so a light weight virtual machine will do the job. That does work and has been for a number of years now. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk Fife, United Kingdom. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
