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 -)----- -- "Implementing CIFS - the Common Internet FileSystem" ISBN: 013047116X Samba Team -- http://www.samba.org/ -)----- Christopher R. Hertel jCIFS Team -- http://jcifs.samba.org/ -)----- ubiqx development, uninq. ubiqx Team -- http://www.ubiqx.org/ -)----- crh@xxxxxxxxxxxx OnLineBook -- http://ubiqx.org/cifs/ -)----- crh@xxxxxxxxx -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
