Chapter 8. Configuring an active/active Samba server in a Red Hat High Availability cluster The Red Hat High Availability Add-On provides support for configuring Samba in an active/active cluster configuration. In the following example, you are configuring an active/active Samba server on a two-node RHEL cluster. For information about support policies for Samba, see Support Policies for RHEL High Availability - ctdb General Policies and Support Policies for RHEL Resilient Storage - Exporting gfs2 contents via other protocols on the Red Hat Customer Portal. To configure Samba in an active/active cluster: Configure a GFS2 file system and its associated cluster resources. Configure Samba on the cluster nodes. Configure the Samba cluster resources. Test the Samba server you have configured. 8.1. Configuring a GFS2 file system for a Samba service in a high availability cluster Before configuring an active/active Samba service in a Pacemaker cluster, configure a GFS2 file system for the cluster. Prerequisites A two-node Red Hat High Availability cluster with fencing configured for each node Shared storage available for each cluster node A subscription to the AppStream channel and the Resilient Storage channel for each cluster node For information about creating a Pacemaker cluster and configuring fencing for the cluster, see Creating a Red Hat High-Availability cluster with Pacemaker . Procedure On both nodes in the cluster, perform the following initial setup steps. Enable the repository for Resilient Storage that corresponds to your system architecture. For example, to enable the Resilient Storage repository for an x86_64 system, enter the following subscription-manager command: The Resilient Storage repository is a superset of the High Availability repository. If you enable the Resilient Storage repository, you do not need to also enable the High Availability repository. Install the lvm2-lockd , gfs2-utils , and dlm packages. Set the use_lvmlockd configuration option in the /etc/lvm/lvm.conf file to use_lvmlockd=1 . On one node in the cluster, set the global Pacemaker parameter no-quorum-policy to freeze . Note By default, the value of no-quorum-policy is set to stop , indicating that once quorum is lost, all the resources on the remaining partition will immediately be stopped. Typically this default is the safest and most optimal option, but unlike most resources, GFS2 requires quorum to function. When quorum is lost both the applications using the GFS2 mounts and the GFS2 mount itself cannot be correctly stopped. Any attempts to stop these resources without quorum will fail which will ultimately result in the entire cluster being fenced every time quorum is lost. To address this situation, set no-quorum-policy to freeze when GFS2 is in use. This means that when quorum is lost, the remaining partition will do nothing until quorum is regained. Set up a dlm resource. This is a required dependency for configuring a GFS2 file system in a cluster. This example creates the dlm resource as part of a resource group named locking . If you have not previously configured fencing for the cluster, this step fails and the pcs status command displays a resource failure message. Clone the locking resource group so that the resource group can be active on both nodes of the cluster. Set up an lvmlockd resource as part of the locking resource group. Create a physical volume and a shared volume group on the shared device /dev/vdb . This example creates the shared volume group csmb_vg . On the second node in the cluster: (RHEL 8.5 and later) If you have enabled the use of a devices file by setting use_devicesfile = 1 in the lvm.conf file, add the shared device to the devices file on the second node in the cluster. By default, the use of a devices file is not enabled. Start the lock manager for the shared volume group. On one node in the cluster, create a logical volume and format the volume with a GFS2 file system that will be used exclusively by CTDB for internal locking. Only one such file system is required in a cluster even if your deployment exports multiple shares. When specifying the lock table name with the -t option of the mkfs.gfs2 command, ensure that the first component of the clustername:filesystemname you specify matches the name of your cluster. In this example, the cluster name is my_cluster . Create a logical volume for each GFS2 file system that will be shared over Samba and format the volume with the GFS2 file system. This example creates a single GFS2 file system and Samba share, but you can create multiple file systems and shares. Set up LVM_Activate resources to ensure that the required shared volumes are activated. This example creates the LVM_Activate resources as part of a resource group shared_vg , and then clones that resource group so that it runs on all nodes in the cluster. Create the resources as disabled so they do not start automatically before you have configured the necessary order constraints. Configure an ordering constraint to start all members of the locking resource group before the members of the shared_vg resource group. Enable the LVM-activate resources. On one node in the cluster, perform the following steps to create the Filesystem resources you require. Create Filesystem resources as cloned resources, using the GFS2 file systems you previously configured on your LVM volumes. This configures Pacemaker to mount and manage file systems. Note You should not add the file system to the /etc/fstab file because it will be managed as a Pacemaker cluster resource. You can specify mount options as part of the resource configuration with options= options . Run the pcs resource describe Filesystem command to display the full configuration options. Configure ordering constraints to ensure that Pacemaker mounts the file systems after the shared volume group shared_vg has started. 8.2. Configuring Samba in a high availability cluster To configure a Samba service in a Pacemaker cluster, configure the service on all nodes in the cluster. Prerequisites A two-node Red Hat High Availability cluster configured with a GFS2 file system, as described in Configuring a GFS2 file system for a Samba service in a high availability cluster . A public directory created on your GFS2 file system to use for the Samba share. In this example, the directory is /srv/samba/share1 . Public virtual IP addresses that can be used to access the Samba share exported by this cluster. Procedure On both nodes in the cluster, configure the Samba service and set up a share definition: Install the Samba and CTDB packages. Ensure that the ctdb , smb , nmb , and winbind services are not running and do not start at boot. In the /etc/samba/smb.conf file, configure the Samba service and set up the share definition, as in the following example for a standalone server with one share. Verify the /etc/samba/smb.conf file. On both nodes in the cluster, configure CTDB: Create the /etc/ctdb/nodes file and add the IP addresses of the cluster nodes, as in this example nodes file. Create the /etc/ctdb/public_addresses file and add the IP addresses and network device names of the cluster's public interfaces to the file. When assigning IP addresses in the public_addresses file, ensure that these addresses are not in use and that those addresses are routable from the intended client. The second field in each entry of the /etc/ctdb/public_addresses file is the interface to use on the cluster machines for the corresponding public address. In this example public_addresses file, the interface enp1s0 is used for all the public addresses. The public interfaces of the cluster are the ones that clients use to access Samba from their network. For load balancing purposes, add an A record for each public IP address of the cluster to your DNS zone. Each of these records must resolve to the same hostname. Clients use the hostname to access Samba and DNS distributes the clients to the different nodes of the cluster. If you are running the firewalld service, enable the ports that are required by the ctdb and samba services. On one node in the cluster, update the SELinux contexts: Update the SELinux contexts on the GFS2 share. Update the SELinux context on the directory shared in Samba. Additional resources For further information about configuring Samba as a standalone server, as in this example, see the Using Samba as a server chapter of Deploying different types of servers . Setting up a forward zone on a BIND primary server . 8.3. Configuring Samba cluster resources After configuring a Samba service on both nodes of a two-node high availability cluster, configure the Samba cluster resources for the cluster. Prerequisites A two-node Red Hat High Availability cluster configured with a GFS2 file system, as described in Configuring a GFS2 file system for a Samba service in a high availability cluster . Samba service configured on both cluster nodes, as described in Configuring Samba in a high availability cluster . Procedure On one node in the cluster, configure the Samba cluster resources: Create the CTDB resource, in group samba-group . The CTDB resource agent uses the ctdb_* options specified with the pcs command to create the CTDB configuration file. Create the resource as disabled so it does not start automatically before you have configured the necessary order constraints. Clone the samba-group resource group. Create ordering constraints to ensure that all Filesystem resources are running before the resources in samba-group . Create the samba resource in the resource group samba-group . This creates an implicit ordering constraint between CTDB and Samba, based on the order they are added. Enable the ctdb and samba resources. Check that all the services have started successfully. Note It can take a couple of minutes for CTDB to start Samba, export the shares, and stabilize. If you check the cluster status before this process has completed, you may see that the samba services are not yet running. On both nodes in the cluster, add a local user for the test share directory. Add the user. Set a password for the user. Set an SMB password for the user. Activate the user in the Samba database. Update the file ownership and permissions on the GFS2 share for the Samba user. 8.4. Verifying clustered Samba configuration If your clustered Samba configuration was successful, you are able to mount the Samba share. After mounting the share, you can test for Samba recovery if the cluster node that is exporting the Samba share becomes unavailable. Procedure On a system that has access to one or more of the public IP addresses configured in the /etc/ctdb/public_addresses file on the cluster nodes, mount the Samba share using one of these public IP addresses. Verify that the file system is mounted. Verify that you can create a file on the mounted file system. Determine which cluster node is exporting the Samba share: On each cluster node, display the IP addresses assigned to the interface specified in the public_addresses file. The following commands display the IPv4 addresses assigned to the enp1s0 interface on each node. In the output of the ip command, find the node with the IP address you specified with the mount command when you mounted the share. In this example, the IP address specified in the mount command is 192.0.2.201. The output of the ip command shows that the IP address 192.0.2.201 is assigned to z1.example.com . Put the node exporting the Samba share in standby mode, which will cause the node to be unable to host any cluster resources. From the system on which you mounted the file system, verify that you can still create a file on the file system. Delete the files you have created to verify that the file system has successfully mounted. If you no longer require the file system to be mounted, unmount it at this point. From one of the cluster nodes, restore cluster services to the node that you previously put into standby mode. This will not necessarily move the service back to that node.

Commands:
subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-8-for-x86_64-resilientstorage-rpms
yum install lvm2-lockd gfs2-utils dlm
use_lvmlockd = 1
pcs property set no-quorum-policy=freeze
pcs resource create dlm --group locking ocf:pacemaker:controld op monitor interval=30s on-fail=fence
pcs resource clone locking interleave=true
pcs resource create lvmlockd --group locking ocf:heartbeat:lvmlockd op monitor interval=30s on-fail=fence
pvcreate /dev/vdb vgcreate -Ay --shared csmb_vg /dev/vdb Volume group "csmb_vg" successfully created VG csmb_vg starting dlm lockspace Starting locking. Waiting until locks are ready
lvmdevices --adddev /dev/vdb
vgchange --lockstart csmb_vg VG csmb_vg starting dlm lockspace Starting locking. Waiting until locks are ready
lvcreate -L1G -n ctdb_lv csmb_vg mkfs.gfs2 -j3 -p lock_dlm -t my_cluster:ctdb /dev/csmb_vg/ctdb_lv
lvcreate -L50G -n csmb_lv1 csmb_vg mkfs.gfs2 -j3 -p lock_dlm -t my_cluster:csmb1 /dev/csmb_vg/csmb_lv1
pcs resource create --disabled --group shared_vg ctdb_lv ocf:heartbeat:LVM-activate lvname=ctdb_lv vgname=csmb_vg activation_mode=shared vg_access_mode=lvmlockd pcs resource create --disabled --group shared_vg csmb_lv1 ocf:heartbeat:LVM-activate lvname=csmb_lv1 vgname=csmb_vg activation_mode=shared vg_access_mode=lvmlockd pcs resource clone shared_vg interleave=true
pcs constraint order start locking-clone then shared_vg-clone Adding locking-clone shared_vg-clone (kind: Mandatory) (Options: first-action=start then-action=start)
pcs resource enable ctdb_lv csmb_lv1
pcs resource create ctdb_fs Filesystem device="/dev/csmb_vg/ctdb_lv" directory="/mnt/ctdb" fstype="gfs2" op monitor interval=10s on-fail=fence clone interleave=true pcs resource create csmb_fs1 Filesystem device="/dev/csmb_vg/csmb_lv1" directory="/srv/samba/share1" fstype="gfs2" op monitor interval=10s on-fail=fence clone interleave=true
pcs constraint order start shared_vg-clone then ctdb_fs-clone Adding shared_vg-clone ctdb_fs-clone (kind: Mandatory) (Options: first-action=start then-action=start) pcs constraint order start shared_vg-clone then csmb_fs1-clone Adding shared_vg-clone csmb_fs1-clone (kind: Mandatory) (Options: first-action=start then-action=start)
dnf -y install samba ctdb cifs-utils samba-winbind
systemctl disable --now ctdb smb nmb winbind
[global] netbios name = linuxserver workgroup = WORKGROUP security = user clustering = yes [share1] path = /srv/samba/share1 read only = no
testparm
192.0.2.11 192.0.2.12
192.0.2.201/24 enp1s0 192.0.2.202/24 enp1s0
firewall-cmd --add-service=ctdb --add-service=samba --permanent firewall-cmd --reload
semanage fcontext -at ctdbd_var_run_t -s system_u "/mnt/ctdb(/. )?" restorecon -Rv /mnt/ctdb
semanage fcontext -at samba_share_t -s system_u "/srv/samba/share1(/. )?" restorecon -Rv /srv/samba/share1
pcs resource create --disabled ctdb --group samba-group ocf:heartbeat:CTDB ctdb_recovery_lock=/mnt/ctdb/ctdb.lock ctdb_dbdir=/var/lib/ctdb ctdb_logfile=/var/log/ctdb.log op monitor interval=10 timeout=30 op start timeout=90 op stop timeout=100
pcs resource clone samba-group
pcs constraint order start ctdb_fs-clone then samba-group-clone pcs constraint order start csmb_fs1-clone then samba-group-clone
pcs resource create samba --group samba-group systemd:smb
pcs resource enable ctdb samba
pcs status Full List of Resources: * fence-z1 (stonith:fence_xvm): Started z1.example.com * fence-z2 (stonith:fence_xvm): Started z2.example.com * Clone Set: locking-clone [locking]: * Started: [ z1.example.com z2.example.com ] * Clone Set: shared_vg-clone [shared_vg]: * Started: [ z1.example.com z2.example.com ] * Clone Set: ctdb_fs-clone [ctdb_fs]: * Started: [ z1.example.com z2.example.com ] * Clone Set: csmb_fs1-clone [csmb_fs1]: * Started: [ z1.example.com z2.example.com ] * Clone Set: samba-group-clone [samba-group]: * Started: [ z1.example.com z2.example.com ]
useradd -M -s /sbin/nologin example_user
passwd example_user
smbpasswd -a example_user New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: Added user example_user
smbpasswd -e example_user
chown example_user:users /srv/samba/share1/ chmod 755 /srv/samba/share1/
mkdir /mnt/sambashare mount -t cifs -o user=example_user //192.0.2.201/share1 /mnt/sambashare Password for example_user@//192.0.2.201/public: XXXXXXX
mount | grep /mnt/sambashare //192.0.2.201/public on /mnt/sambashare type cifs (rw,relatime,vers=1.0,cache=strict,username=example_user,domain=LINUXSERVER,uid=0,noforceuid,gid=0,noforcegid,addr=192.0.2.201,unix,posixpaths,serverino,mapposix,acl,rsize=1048576,wsize=65536,echo_interval=60,actimeo=1,user=example_user)
touch /mnt/sambashare/testfile1 ls /mnt/sambashare testfile1
ip -4 addr show enp1s0 | grep inet inet 192.0.2.11/24 brd 192.0.2.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute enp1s0 inet 192.0.2.201/24 brd 192.0.2.255 scope global secondary enp1s0 ip -4 addr show enp1s0 | grep inet inet 192.0.2.12/24 brd 192.0.2.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute enp1s0 inet 192.0.2.202/24 brd 192.0.2.255 scope global secondary enp1s0
pcs node standby z1.example.com
touch /mnt/sambashare/testfile2 ls /mnt/sambashare testfile1 testfile2
rm /mnt/sambashare/testfile1 /mnt/sambashare/testfile2 rm: remove regular empty file '/mnt/sambashare/testfile1'? y rm: remove regular empty file '/mnt/sambashare/testfile1'? y umount /mnt/sambashare
pcs node unstandby z1.example.com