Hello, I'm sorry to post High availability oriented questions to this list, but I was wondering about some samba configuration parameters and what options are available.
I am using heartbeat, and to make a long story short, i have a floating IP alias between 2 servers. (192.168.1.1 for example). When one server is serving the data, it 'has' this ip. if the server fails over, the other machine takes over the IP alias address, and starts samba. In order to make this work correctly, i have to use the 'interfaces' smb.conf option, which sets smbd to listen to only certain ip addresses. I also have bind interfaces only option on, which is required to prevent two simultaneous smbd processes from binding to the same interface IP. What I am interested in, is seamless failover, completely hidden from the client in the middle of a copy.. Hopefully, they would only see a stall in the copy.. Currently though, I get failed file operations because of the bind interfaces only option. the Bind interfaces only option requires that the 'interface' ip be 'UP' in order for samba to start correctly. This causes problems because to bring the IP address 'UP' before starting the samba server means that the client sees that there is no server processing requests on the ip for a small amount of time, which results in a failed operation. I wonder if there is a way to have samba bind only to certain IP addresses, but not require those addresses to be live at startup. Thanks for all your work in the Open Source community, -- Matt Schillinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba