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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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 doesn’t
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
If you configure your Samba server with a [printers] share to
automatically share all the printers on your HP-UX system, then you
will need to be certain that all your MC/ServiceGuard nodes have the
same HP-UX printers defined. Otherwise, when a failover occurs, the
list of shared printers for the Samba server will change, resulting in
problems on clients using those printers.
Samba's LMHOSTS File
If you wish to use an LMHOSTS file to store the static addresses for
certain netbios names, HP recommends that you put the LMHOSTS
file on a logical shared volume. To do this you will need to specify a
different path for the LMHOSTS file using the -H option when
invoking nmbd. HP recommends that you put the LMHOSTS file on
a logical shared volume so that all the nodes can share it.
You will need to edit the MC/ServiceGuard scripts to add the -H
options to the places where nmbd is invoked directly. You will also
need to edit the /opt/samba/bin/startsmb script to add the -H
option to the places where nmbd is started.