On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 11:01 +0000, Alex Crow wrote: > Hi there, > > I am looking into using CTDB between a PDC and a BDC. I assume this is > possible! > > However I have a few questions: > > 1: Do I have to use tdb2 as an Idmap backend? Can I not stay with ldap? > (from the CTDB docs: > > A clustered Samba install must set some specific configuration > parameters > clustering = yes > idmap backend = tdb2 > private dir = /a/directory/on/your/cluster/filesystem > It is vital that the private directory is on shared storage.)
LDAP should be fine... > 2. I have got the git tree as mentioned on the CTDB pages; however it > seems like 3.2.0pre1 will also support this; which should I go with? > > 3. Do I have to use IP takeover? All I am trying to do in this case is > to consistently provide the home directories and profiles on both the > PDC and BDC (I'm using GFS over iSCSI). > > It doesn't matter if the IP address of either box vanishes - since they > are both domain controllers the still-living box should be used anyway > (background - I am using "passdb expand explicit = yes" and in LDAP I > have home and profile paths specified prefixed by \\%L, so the user's > profile and home dir are mapped to whatever the logon server is for that > session). > > I can see how for sharing domain member services around a cluster that > IP takeover is required, but the PDC/BDC relationship means (IMHO) it's > not required in this instance. This looks like a perfectly good reason not to require IP takeover. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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