[Linux-cluster] samba on gfs

[Allyson - Listas]

Filipe,

I think, you can use LVS to load balance requests into servers and map 
just one virtual ip at windows.

tks,

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Allyson A. Brito
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Filipe Miranda wrote:

> Just one question about running multiple samba servers using GFS....
> You can have the same dada to be shared on multiple servers, but each 
> samba server will need a differente NETBIOS name on the network right?
>
> So if I have a WindowsXP client machine, it will have to map 2(or 
> more) network paths to reach each samba server.
>
> Am I correct? If so, how to address this issue so the user can have 
> just one network mapped drive accessing multiple samba servers(if 
> necessary, if one machine fails for example?)
>
> Att.
> Filipe Miranda
>
> On 3/15/06, *Marc Grimme* <grimme at atix.de <mailto:grimme at atix.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>     we have some customers that have samba clusters with GFS running
>     for a long
>     time without problems. There are some things you need to take into
>     account
>     but nevertheless samba on GFS runs very well even when you export
>     the same
>     data via NFS.
>     E.G. one customer runs a "active/active" Samba/NFS Cluster on GFS
>     as ADS
>     Member for about a year (up to 600 Users) without problems.
>     I would say samba and GFS is a very nice combination.
>     Regards Marc.
>
>     On Wednesday 15 March 2006 07:30, Robert Ruge wrote:
>     > I have had problems with samba running on just one node. It
>     works for
>     > a while and then samba just starts locking up.
>     >
>     > Not a reccomended path if you ask me.
>     >
>     > Robert
>     >
>     > > -----Original Message-----
>     > > From: linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com
>     <mailto:linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com>
>     > > [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com
>     <mailto:linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com>] On Behalf Of Birger Wathne
>     > > Sent: Wednesday, 15 March 2006 5:17
>     > > To: linux clustering
>     > > Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] samba on gfs
>     > >
>     > > Erling Nygaard wrote:
>     > > > Birger
>     > > >
>     > > > The short story is that Samba keeps some state information
>     > >
>     > > internally.
>     > >
>     > > > So there are issues with keeping multiple Samba serves in sync.
>     > > > The information in question is not synced to the underlying
>     > > > filesystem, so GFS can't really do the job of keeping this
>     info in
>     > > > sync between the nodes.
>     > > >
>     > > > I am sure other people on the list can provide more details
>     of the
>     > > > problem and status of any progress :-)
>     > >
>     > > So... This means there is a problem only when you want to run
>     > > multiple samba
>     > > servers in a cluster? There should be no problem sharing the
>     > > same GFS disk
>     > > for one samba instance and one NFS instance running on
>     > > separate nodes (or
>     > > even on the same node during maintenance)?
>     > >
>     > > --
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