On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 09:39 -0700, Bob Balsover wrote: > Steve, DFS should still work. The server address is resolved by the > kernel cifs code and the share will be resolved correctly. > > -Bob > Hi But we don't want to have to specify the server. We want the share to be either of the servers in the domain containing our synced data. Hence (I think) your suggestion of DFS. I know that on windows you can specify \\domain\share and dfs will find any server in the domain that has the share. 1. Can samba/cifs servers be configured to do that? 2. Can Linux clients mount such configurations? 3. Is there a howto? Thanks, Steve > > On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 18:10 -0500, Steve French wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Bob Balsover <cifs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > Why not just use DFS? I believe that this is what it was designed for. > >> > > >> > -Bob > >> > >> > >> Yes. DFS should be used for this. Fairly easy to setup on server > >> (Samba or Windows or NetApp, although very different setup on Samba > >> than Windows) and the client supports it (whether Linux or Windows). > > > > Hi > > Thanks. I know I can do that for windows clients but our Linux boxes (in > > the same domain) use autofs e.g. > > * -fstype=cifs,sec=krb5,multiuser ://server/share/& > > Will the automounter still work from a DFS share and will it still do > > the wild card like vanilla cifs? > > > > What we'd like to do is add a second samba file server and sync the data > > between them. Is DFS the way to go for this? > > Cheers, > > Steve > > > >> > >> > >> > >> >> Hi > >> >> Is it possible to have cifs SRV rrs like ldap and kerberos where > >> clients > >> >> can look for the service themselves? We'd like to be able to offer > >> >> shares on more than one server without the cluster stuff. > >> >> > >> >> ATM we have e.g. > >> >> mount -t cifs //server/share -owhatever > >> >> > >> >> Our question is, would having cifs SRV be a way around having to > >> >> specify a specific server? > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
