Clustering CIFS for *existing* NSS pools: Howto?

Question

Hi.
I found several documents stating this one:
"Once the CIFS protocol is enabled for the shared pool the load and unload script
files will get automatically modified to handle the CIFS service."
e.g. http://tinyurl.com/OES-2SP2CIFS and the docu file_cifs_lx.pdf
Currently CIFS is installed and running on both nodes of this cluster.
I can access the CIFS shares, login of users through the CifsProxyUsers is OK
addressing the ClusterNode, that currently has the NSS volumes mounted.
What I cannot figure out is how to create a appropriate vitual server object, and
what lines need to be added to the corresponding cluster ressource of the NSS
volumes I need to share using CIFS.
Who could point me towards more detailed documentation, or, provide some example
load / unload scripts from his/her environment?
TIA, regards, Rudi.

Answer 1

Hi.
I still fail to "cluster" the CIFS functionality.
BTW: Accessing \\node02-w\ works fine, this is shared, accessible through *ANY* ip
currently active on that node. Propably that's the issue, because the ports are
occupied, even if I add another, new secondary.IP? But if rcnovell-cifs is not
running, the load script line doesn't work either??
Did I get correctly,
- that rcnovell-cifs has to *run* on all designated CIFS cluster nodes?
- that the line ...
novcifs --add --vserver=.cn=NW06.o=MAIN.t=TREE. --ip-addr=10.27.1.51
... will add the resource to the virtual server NW06, so that
it will service it using CIFS?
Any further suggestions appreciated, regards, Rudi.
more details: This is what /var/log/cifs/cifs.log presents:
rcnovell-cifs running, then executing the line above: (each line shows up 2x, why?)
CRITICAL: BROWSER: Bind is failed for virual server ip: System Error No= 98
CRITICAL: NBNS: Bind is failed for virual server ip =10.27.1.51: System Error No = 98
CRITICAL: NBNS: Socket creation and binding for virtual server failed
nmap for 10.27.1.51
137/udp open|filtered netbios-ns
138/udp open|filtered netbios-dgm
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
adding another secondary ipaddress first doesn't make it work either:
.. /opt/novell/ncs/lib/ncsfuncs
add_secondary_ipaddress 10.27.99.51
novcifs --remove --vserver=.cn=NW06.o=MAIN.t=TREE. --ip-addr=10.27.99.51
cifs.log:
CRITICAL: ENTRY: Not Able To Conntect To Server 10.27.99.51
CRITICAL: ENTRY: Not Able To Conntect To Server 10.27.99.51
ERROR: CLI: CIFS: Server fdn .cn=NW06.o=Main.t=Tree. and server_name has already
been added
for that additional sec.IP ports look the same:
nmap: 10.27.99.51
137/udp open|filtered netbios-ns
138/udp open|filtered netbios-dgm
139/tcp open netbios-ssn