12.5. Samba Configuration
The Samba configuration file
smb.conf
is located at /etc/samba/smb.conf
in this example. It contains the following parameters:
[global] guest ok = yes clustering = yes netbios name = csmb-server [csmb] comment = Clustered Samba public = yes path = /mnt/gfs2/share writeable = yes ea support = yes
This example exports a share with name
csmb
located at /mnt/gfs2/share
. This is different from the GFS2 shared filesystem at /mnt/ctdb/.ctdb.lock
that we specified as the CTDB_RECOVERY_LOCK
parameter in the CTDB configuration file at /etc/sysconfig/ctdb
.
In this example, we will create the
share
directory in /mnt/gfs2
when we mount it for the first time. The clustering = yes
entry instructs Samba to use CTDB. The netbios name = csmb-server
entry explicitly sets all the nodes to have a common NetBIOS name. The ea support
parameter is required if you plan to use extended attributes.
The
smb.conf
configuration file must be identical on all of the cluster nodes.
Samba also offers registry-based configuration using the
net conf
command to automatically keep configuration in sync between cluster members without having to manually copy configuration files among the cluster nodes. For information on the net conf
command, see the net
(8) man page.