Samba and Linux HA

Hi -



I have Samba 3.2.3 running on two Linux machines,

and there is Linux HA (v1) set up on these machines(active-passive).



This is what I have in my Heartbeat config file :



logfacility daemon

node MyNode1

node MyNode2

keepalive 1

deadtime 10

bcast eth0

ping my.ping.host.addr

auto_failback no

respawn hacluster /usr/lib64/heartbeat/ipfail



My smb.conf:



[global]

oplocks = no

msdfs root = yes

guest account = myaccount



workgroup = MYWORKGROUP

security = SHARE



max smbd processes = 15

interfaces = eth* lo

bind interfaces only = yes



[MyShare]

path = /opt/myshare

read only = No

guest ok = Yes

locking = no

hosts allow = valid.hosts.ip.addr

hosts deny = ALL





When I test a failover from one node to another, a Samba client

(either Linux or Windows)

does't reconnect automatically to the new node.

I was able to fix this adding this line to ha.cf:

"respawn root /usr/sbin/rcsmb" -- restarting Samba server



Is that a correct way of handling the issue?

Why doesn't a Samba client reconnect automatically after the HA

failover?



Thanks,

Sergey