[Samba] Joining a domain controller with a conflict name
Tom Skeren
tms3 at fsklaw.com
Thu Apr 14 00:12:23 GMT 2005
Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 16:41 -0700, Ephi Dror wrote:
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>>Hi Andrew,
>>
>>Thanks Andrew for your reply.
>>
>>I was not quite understood one thing.
>>
>>Did you mean that "Yes", there is a way to prevent joining a domain with
>>using another server name or did you mean "Yes" that IT must make sure
>>the name is unique and no computer with this name is already part of
>>this domain when joining a domain.
>>
>>
>
>This is the sole responsibility of the IT department. Like windows,
>Samba will use the name it is given.
>
>It is not possible to reliably determine the difference between a
>machine that is rejoining the domain (say after catastrophic hardware
>failure, or simply an failure in the trust account) and a duplicate
>machine, elsewhere in the domain.
>
>
True. However, if a machine named say SA1 is up and connected, and
another SA1 shows up, a network error should occur. Especially if a
WINS server is up.
>Andrew Bartlett
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