Re: Question on domain controller load balancing

At 10:02 AM 9/22/2004 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 11:44, Yimin Chen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I saw on the Squid documentation that Squid supports load balancing
> between
> > domain controllers for NTLM authentication. I am wondering how was that
> > achieved considering now squid is using Samba's ntlm_auth tool to
> > authentication the user? The password server is specified in the Samba
> > configuration files statically, does Squid changes the configuration file
> > in the run time to make winbindd to use different domain controllers each
> > time to load balance?
> >
> > I would really appreciate if you could clarify for me!
>
>Squid plays no role in configuring Samba, it only uses ntlm_auth, and
>expects Samba to be correctly (and independently) configured.
>
>The references to load balancing are, I think, to the old helpers, which
>both imposed a much higher load on the domain controllers, and contacted
>them directly (using a basic SMB library known as smbval).

If I understand correctly, the ntlm_auth tool will only fail-over between
configured domain controllers, instead of load balancing, right? So if an
application using ntlm_auth would like to implement load balancing, it
would have to change the smb.conf in run-time?

Thanks,
Yimin

>Andrew Bartlett
Received on Wed Sep 22 2004 - 11:31:50 MDT