Scope/Description

• This article will walk you through the process of adding additional SMB shares to your existing Ceph Cluster

Prerequisites

• Cluster Setup using Ansible
• SSH access to the Ansible Admin Node

Steps

• SSH to the Ansible Admin node
• Navigate to the /usr/share/ceph-ansible/ directory

root@osd1:~# cd /usr/share/ceph-ansible

• Edit the smbs.yml file

root@osd1:~# vim group_vars/smbs.yml

• Go to the “samba_shares:” listing within the smbs.yml file

• We can utilize the existing template to create additional shares
• Edit the configuration.

samba_shares:
  - name: 'public'
    path: '/fsgw/public'
    type: 'kernel'
    windows_acl: true
    writeable: 'yes'
    guest_ok: 'no'
    comment: "public rw access"

• Rename the share, and change the path to reflect the new Share Name and path to the share

• Save the file by pressing Esc then typing “:wq”
• In the /usr/share/ceph-ansible directory run samba-share.yml. This will run a playbook to create the new shares.

root@osd1:~# ansible-playbook samba-shares.yml

Verification

• After the playbook runs you should see yellow and green text, there should be no red.
• Run “ssh GW1 testparm -s” to show your shares or SSH into a Gateway node and run “testparm -s”

Troubleshooting

• If the playbook fails try running “ansible -m setup all” then rerunning the playbook
• Ensure the formatting in “samba shares:” is correct