FIFO and Samba?

red-beard has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm looking for a way to share data from a Samba wins.dat file to another Samba server. Currently Samba is incapable of doing this on it's own so I was thinking about using a FIFO for wins.dat to make the data available to another server via a database.

I was thinking I could have Samba read and write to the FIFO then the FIFO would pass the data to a backend database. Does using a FIFO seem appropriate for this?

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Re: FIFO and Samba? by sasikumar (Monk) on Apr 22, 2005 at 13:55 UTC
Hi Why not to mount a directory and have your wins.dat in common location and use the ln command to link your file. Thanks SasiKumar	[reply]
Re^2: FIFO and Samba? by jfroebe (Parson) on Apr 22, 2005 at 15:40 UTC
that would work but adds the requirement that the server containing the wins.dat file must always be up for the other servers to utilize. perhaps instead of creating a link, have the file pushed or pulled to a local filesystem? Jason L. Froebe Team Sybase member No one has seen what you have seen, and until that happens, we're all going to think that you're nuts. - Jack O'Neil, Stargate SG-1	[reply]
Re^2: FIFO and Samba? by red-beard (Scribe) on Apr 22, 2005 at 14:24 UTC
That might work. Thanks, Brett	[reply]