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damian_19221
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Mar 11, 2014

Configuration SMB Monitors

Hi, We are looking to load balance CIFS servers using the F5 - the idea is we have two servers, a primary and a secondary. I'd like to only use the secondary when the primary fails (using priority gr...
  • F50_147262's avatar
    Mar 13, 2014

    It seems as though the issue was due to a missing directory. The message below which was seen in the logs was due to the local directory not being present.

    file.txt was not transferred: No such file or directory
    

    The monitoring uses /var/run/monitors as a default directory. This appears to be hardcoded. The get commands are successful and the files are being placed in /var/run as indicated by the preceding lines in the logs.

    smbclient //longweb03sandbo/share mypassword -I 10.200.8.28 -p 445 -c cd .; cd; get file.txt file.txt.18261 -U myuser 
    dirstring: Current directory is \
    Domain=[LONGWEB03SANDBO] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.33-3.39.el5_8]
    getting file \file.txt of size 2 as file.txt.18261 (0.5 kb/s) (average 0.5 kb/s)
    Recvd: 'Current directory is \
    

    Creating /var/run/monitors directory resolved the issue. We now get:

    smbclient //longweb03sandbox/share mypassword -I 10.200.8.28 -p 445 -c cd .; cd; get damian.txt damian.txt.24691 -U 101135 
    dirstring: Current directory is \
    Domain=[LONGWEB03SANDBO] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.33-3.39.el5_8]
    getting file \damian.txt of size 6 as damian.txt.24691 (1.5 kb/s) (average 1.5 kb/s)
    Recvd: 'Current directory is \
    '
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