Steve, you appear to be beating a dead horse. Assuming you are using a somewhat current kernel just place the DFS share in your client's configuration file and try it. I am currently working with this kernel code and it works fine. > 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 > -- 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
