Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Jason Healy wrote:
> They might be referring to using Samba and setting it up as a domain
> master. This is stupid, because a) it doesn't come configured that
> way, and b) any organization worth its salt will run a backup domain
> controller to ensure that nobody can hijack control of the domain (for
> a while, all Win 95 boxes were factory set to try to elect themselves
> as the browse master for a domain, so they should have solved this
There's a difference between the domain controller and the master browser.
Win9x can only be the master browser, Samba and NT can be either or both.
Samba does like to be the master browser, but it doesn't really matter who
is the master browser; in fact, having it be a Samba system is probably
*better* since it is more likely to be stable, cutting down on the number
of elections and improving performance overall :}
On the other hand if Samba wants to be the domain controller you will
cause havoc, similar to if you were claiming to be the NIS master server.
Some distributions at least did for a time have Samba by default being the
domain controller. I don't think this is the case with current Debian
(but then, I don't use Samba any more...)
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