I am sorry for the long *involved* post, however we are at wits end and advice would be greatly appreciated.
Background: We have three servers in this example. Two of the servers (we will call Server A & B) each have a 2.7T raid 5 array that is mirrored with DRBD and monitored for failover with Heartbeat. NFS is running and exporting the array on Heartbeats virtual IP. "Server C" mounts the export, and is a Samba PDC. The mount contains all project data which samba hands out to ~250 windows boxes. There are at least ~1600 files open(locked) at any given time throughout the day. It works, kinda. The users can work and everything is fine except we get somewhat random, usually 2 freezes a day. The windows boxes freeze up for a few minutes then resume working like nothing happened. The servers go idle during this "freeze", and sometimes we get the " lock.d can't reach server" then "ok" messages in dmesg, but other times not. The post is long enough without telling you all that we have tried. (long list including network drivers, nfs mount options, samba locking options, etc..). We now have data on "Server C" and Samba hosting it off it's local drives.. It's only been one day so far, but so far (knock on wood) no freezes. In addition samba runs much smoother on the clients end, such as (*right-click*properties boxes etc...) Segue to question... Question(s): Does Samba not work on top of NFS? Is there any better way for Samba to access the data on the failover pair of servers than NFS? Is it locking that is causing us problems? What is the correct 'Samba' way to get remote data shared to multiple samba front ends? I guess my ultimate question and why I am posting, is because I have tried TONS of things and am curious if anyone else has this particular setup working? Please let me know if I can provide any information! Thank you for your time, -- Ryan Taylor Micro Consultants 770-789-2072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Until I see everything working right, I will be apprehensive." Pamela Klabbers -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
