Since we're on the subject of Samba over the WAN....
(BTW, I'm running three offices with a Samba 3.0.9 PDC and two Samba
3.0.9 BDCs over an FreeSwan based WAN and it works just fine. The
WINS server is a must in my book though.)
We have a fifteen site WAN with sites linked via Frame Relay, point-to-point
T1s, and ISDN
Last Thursday and Friday, one of the remove office's WAN lines went
down. While the outages were significant, nothing major happened
because of it. But, it got me thinking about what *could* have
happened and that has raised these questions.
Background: All servers running RHEL 3.0, up2date'd. Samba version
is 3.0.9.something.that.RedHat.Adds OpenLDAP used for ldapsam
password backend. Master OpenLDAP server is located in my office,
each office has a replica.
Same, we have a central OpenLDAP server on SuSe and various replicants.
1). If someone would have decided to change their password while the
line was down, what would have been the net effect?
The attempt would fail.
I know the change would not have been applied to the replica LDAP
server, but would it have been queued until the Master LDAP server
could have been contacted?
No.
2). I know that each workstation in the domain changes its machine
password at a random time, what would have happened during this
process if the WAN was down?
The change password would fail, it would try again later.
3). Are there any other problems that could be caused by a WAN outage
that can be called disasterous?
No, we've had sites drop off the WAN for days with no significant issues.
What would those be?
4). Any recommendations to minimize No. 3 above?
Start your own phone company? :) One that doesn't suck.
--
Adam Tauno Williams - http://www.whitemice.org
--
To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
