[K12OSN] Distributed Samba deployment opinions?
Chris Hobbs
chobbs at silvervalley.k12.ca.us
Mon Jun 21 17:43:33 UTC 2004
Quentin Hartman wrote:
>Colleagues-
> I am going to be deploying a Samba domain / file serving infrastructure
>in my district this summer. The buildings in my district are
>interconnected via T1 lines, and the major design goals of this project
>are:
>
>1- Only Internet and authentication should generally traverse the T1
>links between buildings (each building has its own file server locally).
>
>2- Authentication should work globally so that people may easily move
>from building to building and still have things work, even if their home
>directory is not stored on the local file server.
>
>3- Home directories need to be easy to migrate from one file server to
>another should someone permanently change buildings.
>
Hi Quentin,
I'm looking at exactly the same scenario (several geographically
separated buildings with T1 connectivity), with the added bonus of far
too common network outages.
My plan is to have each of the site servers configured, effectively, as
BDCs, each with their own LDAP server (slaved from the primary at the
DO) and Samba authenticating local clients. The only difference between
this and your stated goals is that not even authentication would
traverse the WAN, just internet and the occasional user's data if
they're away from their home site. I entertained the idea of using rsync
to keep up to date files from all sites on all servers, but the times it
would be needed are so few and far between that I didn't deem it
worthwhile. I will be rsyncing all machines to one central server
nightly for backups, which would also make a fine place to migrate a
user from one site to another.
Hope this helps,
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