samba - Aug 2006 - Two samba installation on the same host

Dear all

For some reasons I would like to run two samba installations (/opt/samba1 
and /opt/samba2) on the same host.
Is such a dual installation supported?
If yes, what do I have to consider?

With many thanks

Paul

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On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 15:18 +0200, paul.barmettler@ch.schindler.com
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> Dear all
> 
> For some reasons I would like to run two samba installations (/opt/samba1 
> and /opt/samba2) on the same host.
> Is such a dual installation supported?
> If yes, what do I have to consider?
If you can bind to 2 different IP address, you can.
Don't share the same filesystems if possible, or if you do understand
that you may have some data corruption in some corner cases if 2 clients
connected to the 2 different instances use the same file as the 2 samba
servers will not coordinate locking/share modes/etc ...
Make sure you have kernel oplocks.
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Dear all

For some reasons I would like to run two samba installations (/opt/samba1 
and /opt/samba2) on the same host.
Is such a dual installation supported?
If yes, what do I have to consider?

With many thanks

Paul

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On Friday 04 August 2006 14:51, paul.barmettler@ch.schindler.com
wrote:
> Dear all
>
> For some reasons I would like to run two samba installations (/opt/samba1
> and /opt/samba2) on the same host.
> Is such a dual installation supported?
> If yes, what do I have to consider?
I have done that for years without problems.With even more instances.

You just have to compile two instances with differnet install-prefix.
Then you need to configure a second IP-address on the network interface.
something like 
	ifconfig eth0:1 ip-address ........

In smb.conf configure samba to bind to that second interface using the 
parameters "socket address" and "interfaces"

And of course you need different netbiosnames...

/Ulf