On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 10:12 -0700, Bob Balsover wrote: > Why don't you try it and tell us if you have a problem. Whilst we can find this: https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/msdfs.html There seems to be nothing on domain dfs. Could you give us a pointer? If it's not possible, no problem. Just that we'd rather use samba servers. Thanks. > > > 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
