[Fedora-directory-users] questions about 2 node multi-master setup

[Rich Megginson]

Luke Schierer wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 03:06:04PM -0400, Luke Schierer wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>> I just set up Fedora Directory Server on two nodes, and have set up
>> multi-master replication between them following the directions at
>> http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:WalkthroughMultimasterSSL
>>
>> It seems to mostly work, but I have a few questions.
>>
>> 1)After initializing nodeB and restarting nodesA and B, I can no
>> longer connect to nodeB with the Console application.  If I type in
>> its hostname, it connects, but I can only open up the slapd directory
>> if nodeA is up.  I can continue to log into nodes authenticating
>> against the pair, and I can use the command line utities to connect to
>> nodeB.  Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
>>
>>
>> 2)if I change a password (using the passwd command on a client) while
>> nodeA is down, or add a user with ldapmodify while nodeA is down, the
>> change does not seem to replicate back to nodeA after it comes back
>> up.  Do I have to force an initialization in such cases?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Luke
>>     
>
> A couple of additional details.  This is on a 32-bit Redhat Enterprise
> 5 server.  The first issue only happens if I set it to replicate
> ou=NetscapeRoot, which appears to be necessary for the global password
> policy to replicate.
I don't think that is true.  What leads you to believe that?
> Is there a better way to achieve this?
>   
Have you seen this - http://tinyurl.com/6apcfq
> I tried using the fdstool script in one archived email, but that gave
> me errors when I tried to run it, and so I turned to the more manual
> instructions in the MultimasterSSL guide. I removed my fedora-ds
> install between trying with the script and doing it myself following
> the guide. 
>
> Thanks,
> Luke
>
>
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