CVS update: samba/docs/htmldocs

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at switchboard.net
Tue Apr 13 02:16:45 EST 1999


On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Matt Chapman wrote:

> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> > > * "domain master" now defaults to "auto". Currently this attempts to
> > > become DMB iff Samba is the PDC (ala Windows NT).
> > 
> > no, this HAS to be disabled and HAS to default to off.  if you do this
> > then you will cause problems in NT PDC environments.  DON'T do this!
> > 
> 
> Can you explain why - this is just what NT does, no? I changed it

no it does not.  setting "dmb" ALSO means "i am a PDC".  it registers
DOMAIN<1b> and it is clearly critical that only one PDC exist per domain.

if admins forget to set dmb=yes, then tough luck on them!



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