Sun Cluster HA for Samba Overview

Samba is an Open Source/Freeware suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License and can be downloaded from http://www.samba.org. Samba is packaged with Solaris 9 as the SUNWsmbac, SUNWsmbar, SUNWsmbau, and SUNWsfman packages.

The Sun Cluster HA for Samba data service provides a mechanism for orderly startup and shutdown, fault monitoring and automatic failover of the Samba service. The following Samba components are protected by the Sun Cluster HA for Samba data service.