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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...
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    F50_147262
    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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damian_19221
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Mar 12, 2014

Yeah, it does look like the file is missing, but using a similar smbclient command I can see the file:

smbclient //longweb03sandbox/share mypassword -I 10.200.8.28 -p 445 -c ls -U myuser
Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.33-3.39.el5_8]
  .                                   D        0  Wed Mar 12 15:02:37 2014
  ..                                  D        0  Wed Mar 12 15:01:52 2014
  damian.txt                          N        0  Wed Mar 12 15:02:37 2014
  file.txt                            N        2  Tue Mar 11 15:36:32 2014

        63481 blocks of size 16384. 61314 blocks available

I've tried the same command from a random Linux host, and from the LTM, both can see the file.

Also getting the file as below:

smbclient //longweb03sandbox/share mypassword -I 10.200.8.28 -p 445  -U 101135
Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.33-3.39.el5_8]
smb: \> get file.txt
getting file file.txt of size 2 as file.txt (0.7 KiloBytes/sec) (average 0.7 KiloBytes/sec)

...also works