setup glustersamba

Work in Progress

Setting up Samba with GlusterFS

Source install GlusterFS

Cloning and installing the right Samba src

$ git clone git://git.samba.org/samba.git samba
$ cd samba
$ git checkout -b v3-6-stable origin/v3-6-stable
$ cd source3
$ ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make
$ sudo make install

Cloning and installing right Gluster Samba VFS plugin

$ git clone git://forge.gluster.org/samba-glusterfs/samba-glusterfs-vfs.git
~/samba-glusterfs-vfs
$ cd ~/samba-glusterfs-vfs
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --with-samba-source=/abs/path/to/samba/source3dir && make
$ sudo make install

Making Samba work with GlusterFS

Determine where Samba daemon looks for configuration files, and move the files appropriately.

# /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -b
# cd <path to samba srcdir>
# cp packaging/RHEL/setup/smb.conf /usr/local/samba/lib/

Append the below section to the Samba config file for exporting a directory, testdir, which is inside a GlusterFS volume, testvol1. 'testshare' is the share that you'd export to a particular ip (10.70.43.71).

[testshare]
        path = /testdir
        read only = No
        hosts allow = 10.70.43.71
        hosts deny = ALL
        vfs objects = glusterfs
        glusterfs:volume = testvol1

You can check the internal correctness of the config file and dump a particular section as follows.

# /usr/local/samba/bin/testparm -s --section-name testshare.

Start the Samba server.

# /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd

You can edit the configuation file, and make the server reload the config file by,

# /usr/local/samba/bin/smbcontrol smbd reload-config

It is necessary to be a valid Samba user to access a share on the Samba server. You can create a Samba user, root, by

# /usr/local/samba/bin/smbpassword - a root

You can check the shares exported by the samba server by

# /usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient -L <host-ip>

The Samba client can mount the share by

# mount -t cifs //<host-ip>/testshare /mnt/cifsmnt/ -o username=root,password=<password of the Samba user root>