Why don't you try it and tell us if you have a problem. > 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 > -- 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
