Re: Question on domain controller load balancing

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:31:12 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Yimin Chen wrote:

> I checked the Samba instructions, but didn't find anything specific on load
> balancing, just one paragraph mentioning that Samba will contact the password
> server in the order specified, so you can change the order to load balancing.

Or you can use the automatic discovery mode (the default) and Samba does
it all automatically for you.

> Did you mean that Squid doesn't do any load balancing, and it is all handled
> by ntlm_auth tool? In that case, it would be fail-over, instead of load
> balancing, right?

Squid or ntlm_auth does not care. It is all up to winbind to find the most
proper domain controller for the domain.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Sep 22 2004 - 11:31:13 MDT

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