On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 02:52, Yimin Chen wrote: > At 08:47 AM 9/22/2004 +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > >On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Yimin Chen wrote: > > > >>The password server is specified in the Samba configuration files > >>statically, does Squid changes the configuration file in the run time to > >>make winbindd to use different domain controllers each time to load balance? > > > >See the Samba instructions on how to join a NT Domain or ADS tree. Once > >properly joined this is no longer the case. > > I checked the Samba instructions, but didn't find anything specific on load > balancing, just one paragraph mentioning that Samba will contact the > password server in the order specified, so you can change the order to load > balancing.
That is correct. We only talk to one server at a time. > Did you mean that Squid doesn't do any load balancing, and it is all > handled by ntlm_auth tool? In that case, it would be fail-over, instead of > load balancing, right? Yes, it's fail over. Discussions on improving this to load-balancing are welcome on the samba-technical list however, as I know Volker keeps wanting to tempt me back into Samba3 development with some of the very interesting things he comes up with. Andrew Bartlett
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