Re: [Condor-users] condor_master.exe does not start onwindows machine reboot

[Ian Chesal <ICHESAL@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> The shared filesystem (SaMBa) is available for the
> Windows Machines served by some linux servers.
> It does not depend on another service to be started
> locally.
> In most of our pool machines the service finds the
> configuration files but on some machines it doesn't.
> It seems that there is some delay on NETLOGON
> authentication process of this machine on the AD
> that is preventing Condor to find the configuration
> files on the network.

The only reliable way I've been able to find to get Condor on Windows to
read configuration files, off a network share, using a UNC path, is to
use Samba, with the share configured for wide-open, read-only access.

Anything that involves any authentication step seems to trip up Windows
services.

I use the follow smb.conf entry to share out configuration files for
Windows machines:

        [condor]
                comment = Condor Configuration File Share
                path = /opt/condor
                public = yes
                only guest = yes
                writeable = no
                printable = no
                browseable = no

Windows machines are told to read \\sambahost\condor\condor_config as
their configuration file. That has not only worked reliably for us for a
few years now, but its scaled quite well.

- Ian

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