Re: [Samba] Highly-available file server question..

2010-10-20 Thread Daniel Müller
To have something like dfs in the windows server world does: you have to use something like cluster and drbd master master and two samba servers/openldap in master server repl. or master master On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:09:31 -0400, simo i...@samba.org wrote: On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:52 -0700,

[Samba] Highly-available file server question..

2010-10-19 Thread John_Delisle
I'm working on a project which requires a highly-available Samba service in a hurry. We multiple (3) servers with access to SAN storage using Oracle OCFS2 (clustered filesystem, allows each of the 3 nodes to simultaneously access to the same SAN disk). We need to somehow provide Windows

Re: [Samba] Highly-available file server question..

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Weiss
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:34 PM, john_deli...@ceridian.ca wrote: We multiple (3) servers with access to SAN storage using Oracle OCFS2 (clustered filesystem, allows each of the 3 nodes to simultaneously access to the same SAN disk).  We need to somehow provide Windows clients with access to

Re: [Samba] Highly-available file server question..

2010-10-19 Thread John_Delisle
] Highly-available file server question.. On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:34 PM, john_deli...@ceridian.ca wrote: We multiple (3) servers with access to SAN storage using Oracle OCFS2 (clustered filesystem, allows each of the 3 nodes to simultaneously access to the same SAN disk). We need

Re: [Samba] Highly-available file server question..

2010-10-19 Thread Indexer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/10/2010, at 4:31 AM, john_deli...@ceridian.ca wrote: I wasn't sure DFS was a good fit, my understanding of DFS is limited (reading up today..). As i understood it, Samba does not support DFS? Am i wrong? I have done some googling into

Re: [Samba] Highly-available file server question..

2010-10-19 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:19:36AM +1030, Indexer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/10/2010, at 4:31 AM, john_deli...@ceridian.ca wrote: I wasn't sure DFS was a good fit, my understanding of DFS is limited (reading up today..). As i understood it, Samba

Re: [Samba] Highly-available file server question..

2010-10-19 Thread simo
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:52 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:19:36AM +1030, Indexer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/10/2010, at 4:31 AM, john_deli...@ceridian.ca wrote: I wasn't sure DFS was a good fit, my understanding of DFS is