[mdlug] Samba and F5 for Failover?

[Michael ORourke]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Adkins" <radkins at impelind.com>
To: "'MDLUG's Main discussion list'" <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [mdlug] Samba and F5 for Failover?


>
>  This should work perfectly fine, since using the exact same configuration
> files on both servers will appear to be no different to the workstations, 
> as
> the SIDS will be the same. I love this about Samba as it has allowed me to
> shift the entire domain from one server to another a good half a dozen 
> times
> without me having to run around and manually reboot or rejoin workstations
> to the "new" domain server. (Of course, I don't perform such changeovers
> during normal business hours, unless I am in a bind.)
>

Doh!  I wish I had talked to you about this exact scenario a week ago, as I 
had run into some problems migrating XP Pro clients from an old Samba server 
running as a PDC to a new Samba server.  Just out of curiousity, did you 
setup the new server as a BDC, then promote it to a PDC?  Or just copy the 
config from the old to the new server, then turn off Samba on the old server 
and turn in on for the new server?

-Mike