HP CIFS Server 2.2i Administrator's Guide version A.01.11.01

Conﬁguring HA HP CIFS

Conﬁgure a Highly Available HP CIFS Server

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Conﬁgure a Highly Available HP CIFS Server

To conﬁgure the HA HP CIFS Server product, you must complete the

steps below. These steps are described in detail in the following sections.

1. Move data to the HP CIFS share volume.

2. Edit the samba.conf package conﬁguration ﬁle.

3. Edit the samba.cntl control script.

4. Create the MC/ServiceGuard Binary Conﬁguration File.

Move Data to the HP CIFS Share Volume

To conﬁgure the highly available HP CIFS Server package, complete the

following tasks on the Primary Node of your MC/ServiceGuard cluster:

1. Move all relevant data to the HP CIFS Server package shared

volume.

Relevant data, consisting of all directories and ﬁles which will be

accessed using HP CIFS Server, should reside on shared volumes.

This data includes any shares created by the user. For example, if the

HP CIFS Server administrator creates a TEST=c:/tmp/test share,

then all the data from /tmp/test should reside on a shared logical

volume.

NOTE HP recommends that you conﬁgure your /etc/opt/samba directory

to reside on a shared logical volume. This allows all nodes to share

an smb.conf ﬁle. This simpliﬁes the conﬁguration, but requires that

the names of printers shared by Samba and directory paths to the

root of Samba shares be identical. While you could keep separate

smb.conf ﬁles on each node, it would be difﬁcult to keep the smb.conf

ﬁle on every node updated each time a change is made.

It would also be difﬁcult to conﬁgure and manage a conﬁguration

where the names of shared printers and share locations vary from

node to node.