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

Configuring HA HP CIFS
Special Notes for HA HP CIFS Server
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Easier options would be to set wide links to no or to be sure that
every file or directory that you point to is on a logical shared volume.
• Encrypted Passwords
If you have your Samba server configured with encrypt passwords set
to yes, then you have to use an smbpasswd file. By default, this file is
in /var/opt/samba/private, but you can specify a different path
with the smb passwd file parameter.
HP recommends that you locate your smbpasswd file on a logical
shared volume if you use this file. You can do so by setting smb
passwd file to a path within a logical shared volume or by making
/var/opt/samba/private part of a logical shared volume.
• Samba as a WINS Server
If you configure your Samba server to be a WINS server by setting
the wins support parameter to yes, it will store the WINS database
the file /var/opt/samba/locks/WINS.DAT.
If this file is not on a logical shared volume, when a failover occurs,
there will be a short period of time when all the WINS clients update
the Samba WINS server with their address. However, if this short
period of time to restore the WINS database is not acceptable, you
can reduce the period of time to restore the full WINS service.
To do so, configure /var/opt/samba/locks/WINS.DAT to be a
symbolic link to a WINS.DAT file on a logical shared volume. HP
does not recommend putting the entire /var/opt/samba/locks
directory on a logical shared volume, because the locking data may
not be correctly interpreted after a failover.
• Samba as a Master Browser
If you configure your Samba server to be the domain master browser
by setting the domain master to yes, it will store the browsing
database in the /var/opt/samba/locks/BROWSE.DAT file. HP
does not recommend doing this in an HA configuration.
If you do so, you will probably want to configure
/var/opt/samba/locks/BROWSE.DAT as a symbolic link to a
BROWSE.DAT file on a logical shared volume. HP does not
recommend putting the entire /var/opt/samba/locks directory on a
logical shared volume because the locking data may not be correctly
interpreted after a failover.
• Automatic Printer Sharing