Topic: High Availability problem

[Robert Schmidt]

Hi,
I am building a High availability SMB Cluster based on RequestedDeletion Howto (simulating PDC-BDC). Heartbeat controls SMB. It is working fine (thanks RequestedDeletion). The only problem is that SMB service stops whenever I create a new user account. I guess the reason for this behavior is that I stopped the SMB service via the Service Control panel. How can make the Server Manager restart heartbeat service instead of smb when user accounts are created?

Thanks

Robert Schmidt

[guestHH]

Hi Robert,

Can you tell a little bit more about your configuration and exact status of it when creating users?

e.g. on which node are you working, is it the master-node etc.

Regards,
guestHH

[Robert Schmidt]

Hi

heartbeat is installed and configured to start-stop smb on both nodes
smb service has been stopped via the Service Control panel on both nodes
I created symbolic links to /etc/rc7.d for heartbeat
I am always working on the master node
scp copies smb related files to secondary nodem (every 15 minutes), ie
  MACHINE.SID
  passwd
  smbpasswd
  group
  shadow
  gshadow
  smb.conf

smb.conf has been modified via template to make sure the interface = the ip of the cluster

This setup works fine. Users can log on to the domain when the primary node is down.

But when I add a user account via server-manager (and probably ibays), smb service is not restarted.

Thanks,
Robert Schmidt

[guestHH]

Hi Robert,

Sorry for the late reply.

I think this is a hearbeat mechanism related issue. Please contact :
http://www.linux-ha.org/help/

For more info on this one.

Sorry for this brief answer..

Regards,
guestHH