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...would work for a while. But you need to do this on a regular basis as the password is updated to a new random password every now and then (default once a week?) and the secondary server would be out of sync. Just as an suggestion to the samba team ... a hook like "machine pwd update script = sync_secrets.sh" in smb.conf would come in handy. Hope I was of any help Uli

Hello, Samba Gurus ..... I have a Samba server running on a pair of SUN servers (server-a and server-b). The samba shares are NFS mounted from a third SUN server (server-c). I installed Samba 2.2.7a on the paired SUN servers under /usr/local/samba (Samba 2.2.7a is locally installed on server-a and server-b, since /usr/local/samba is local on the rootdisk.) The failover environment works like