why don't set up an excact copy of this printer server and give it an other netbios name.The "netbios alias" feature was already tested and worked here.
if the active printserver crashes, you make an entry in the backup server
smb.conf, called: netbios alias = <servername>
then name the alias after your real server, so that the network think's the active server is up again.
this way the backup will handel all calles with the active server name...
L8r Collen
The problem is:
The first server acts as primary Samba server, all Windows clients use this box as a print server. Now this server crashes ( maybe a hardware problem for example).
With netbios alias I have the second samba server working within minutes - no problems for the Windows machines.
But now I have to setup the first server. I cannot take off the second server to make an exact copy because he is now the print server.
I can reinstall the first server with the new hardware, but I have to install the Windows printer drivers within Samba by hand - which takes a loooong time. Also I cannot use the original server name for samba, because there is the second box working under its name...
Does tdbackup solve my problem?
Carsten
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