Re: [Samba] CTDB and LDAP: anyone?
Andrew, Apologies for not thanking you earlier; I missed your reply amongst the other stuff. So Cheers! Since 3.2.0 will be out soon I'll probably wait for that before even considering deployment. I will test with the preview releases. Thanks for the help. Alex On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 07:51 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 11:01 +, 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 -- This message is intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential information. Unless you are that person, you may not disclose its contents or use it in any way and are requested to delete the message along with any attachments and notify us immediately. Transact is operated by Integrated Financial Arrangements plc Domain House, 5-7 Singer Street, London EC2A 4BQ Tel: (020) 7608 4900 Fax: (020) 7608 1200 (Registered office: as above; Registered in England and Wales under number: 3727592) Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (entered on the FSA Register; number: 190856) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] CTDB and LDAP: anyone?
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 11:01 +, 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. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] CTDB and LDAP: anyone?
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.) 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. Looking forward to any advice I receive, Cheers Alex -- This message is intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential information. Unless you are that person, you may not disclose its contents or use it in any way and are requested to delete the message along with any attachments and notify us immediately. Transact is operated by Integrated Financial Arrangements plc Domain House, 5-7 Singer Street, London EC2A 4BQ Tel: (020) 7608 4900 Fax: (020) 7608 1200 (Registered office: as above; Registered in England and Wales under number: 3727592) Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (entered on the FSA Register; number: 190856) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
