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...em%22&rnum=1#ca0a5ce2496059c4 , this is the way to get two clustered systems to share locking information. However, when I connect to one of the servers and open a file, the other server is not aware that the file is open. According to http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/SambaHA.html#id2652330 in the Conclusions section, "Transparent SMB clustering is hard to do" and "Client failover is the best we can do right now". Andrew Tridgell's Ping Pong tool at http://junkcode.samba.org/#ping_pong demonstrates "the futility of trying to do a high perfo...

Hi everybody I'm trying to set up a high available (HA) cluster with samba and store the data on a SAN. Are there any known problems that I should no before starting this project? Have someone of you already realized a project like this? And which cluster-software did you use? Thanks for response Greets Chris

I have a customer that is using 250 gig drives for his business data. I have been using rsync to keep mirror copies of his data on a second machine. In the last 3 months I have lost 2 of four drives, the last one being the system drive. I have been doing a manual switchover. Each time rsync runs, I copy my samba conf files, passwd, shadow and group files from etc. Has anyone setup a HA

We're using Samba 3.0.21a-1 on a CentOS 4.2 server (kernel 2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp); everything works more or less fine, it's functioning as the PDC with an OpenLDAP back end (setup essentially straight from the Idealx.org playbook), etc. We're trying to mount Windows shares to back them up, and getting "permission denied" errors when trying to read certain files from those