[Linux-cluster] Re: Samba failover "impossible" due to missing cifs client reconnect?
Christopher R. Hertel
crh at ubiqx.mn.org
Wed Sep 7 21:12:52 UTC 2005
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:51:16PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
: :
> > I just tested this. On a W/XP box I browsed through some directories on a
> > share served by Samba. I then shut Samba down, and tried viewing some
> > different subdirectories of the same share. Windows coughed up an error
> > dialog. I then restarted Samba and Windows got happy again. I could
> > browse through all of the subdirectories in the share.
>
> Yes, that does work, but what I wanted to setup is a transparent
> failover, so that network I/O recovers w/o any manual interaction.
>
> I.e. I don't want to (soft) relocate the samba shares onto another
> node due to load ballancing considerations and generate user visible
> I/O errors and failures on a dozen clients.
I guess I'm not really clear on what it is you're trying to accomplish.
Can you provide a little more description of what you'd like to see
happen, and what kinds of environments you expect?
Chris -)-----
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