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== Samba (Windows Compatibility) ==
== Samba (Windows Compatibility) ==



Revision as of 23:50, 27 October 2009

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Samba (Windows Compatibility)

This section contains information related to Samba, the suite of software Fedora uses to interact with Microsoft Windows systems.

GFS2 Clustered Samba

With the availability of a clustered database (CTDB) for Samba, multiple instances of smbd across different nodes of a cluster are able to share state. It is now possible to export a gfs2 filesystem through one or more nodes in the cluster in a active/passive or active/active configuration to provide a highly-available Samba service.

Benefit to Fedora

Samba was not cluster-aware until the introduction of CTDB and hence it was not possible to have a highly available samba service. Particularly, active/active configuration was not possible. With this feature, it will be possible to run highly available samba service(s) with different configurations (active/active, active/passive) over a shared gfs2 filesystem on the Red Hat cluster infrastructure.