samba - Aug 2004 - Authenticating UNIX Cluster with Active Directory

Hi All,

We're running Samba 3.0.2 on Solaris and have successfully implemented a
number of samba servers authenticating with Active Directory. I now have a
requirement to try and implement a samba service using Active Directory
authentication within a two-node Veritas Cluster 3.5 environment.

My aim is to have the users access the samba share not by the individual cluster
node names, but by the clusters Virtual Nodename (the nodename that moves
between the cluster nodes).

I'm not bothered about heavily integrating Samba itself within the cluster,
the logistics of the solution have all been sorted out. It is purely the
authentication process that I don't know how to achieve i.e. how to go about
registering a virtual ip address with active directory so that no matter which
cluster node has possesion of the virtual interface, the users can still access
the share without changing anything.

Many Thanks,
Keith.

Senior Technical Analyst (Solaris)

Hi!

we are using samba/winbind in a AIX HACMP and that works very well, autning
against
2003 server.
And we are using the node name so the package can do a failover and users
can access same home dir's.

Regards Anders


On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 06:19:35PM +0100, Hodder, Keith
wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We're running Samba 3.0.2 on Solaris and have successfully implemented
a number of samba servers authenticating with Active Directory. I now have a
requirement to try and implement a samba service using Active Directory
authentication within a two-node Veritas Cluster 3.5 environment.
> 
> My aim is to have the users access the samba share not by the individual
cluster node names, but by the clusters Virtual Nodename (the nodename that
moves between the cluster nodes).
> 
> I'm not bothered about heavily integrating Samba itself within the
cluster, the logistics of the solution have all been sorted out. It is purely
the authentication process that I don't know how to achieve i.e. how to go
about registering a virtual ip address with active directory so that no matter
which cluster node has possesion of the virtual interface, the users can still
access the share without changing anything.
> 
> Many Thanks,
> Keith.
> 
> Senior Technical Analyst (Solaris)
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