Corporate Reactions to Linux (fwd)

[Simon Murcott]

On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Fredrik Norrman wrote:

   What I suggested Samba takes care of is the case where 
   a stupid user who sets up his first RedHat server and 
   misconfigures Samba and brings down the corporate NT network
   because of that. 
   You can easily solve that by checking if _someone else_ is
   already registered as PDC on the network.
   
This is actually normal NT behaviour (I have done it before with two NT
servers). If your bring up a PDC when another PDC is present for the same domain
it instantly turns itself into a workstation.

Regards

Simon Murcott