New Microsoft Knowledgebase article

[Iain Rae]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Martin Kuhne wrote:

> I'm afraid what you wrote will be hard to get published.
> Does anyone have a practical suggestion on how to instruct an inexperienced
> administrator to disable PDC functionality in Samba?

1. Explain what the problem actually is (two PDC Controllers on the same
workgroup) and why this can't work.

2. Point them at suitable documentation (say
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html#domainmaster or the
DOMAIN.txt file)

3. Suggest they subscribe to one of the samba mailing lists if they
need further help (point them at www.samba.org)

What is particularly annoying about the KB article is that it doesn't
solve the problem merely the symptom.


> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> Microsoft GmbH
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl Denninger [mailto:karl at Denninger.Net]
> Sent: Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2000 01:39
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> Subject: Re: New Microsoft Knowledgebase article
> 
> 
> Cute.
> 
> "Turn off the Samba server".
> 
> How about:
> 
> 	Format your disks, install Linux or FreeBSD, and tell Microsoft to
> 	go fuck themselves with a football - preferrably to the same
> 	regional sales force that sold you the NT crapware in the first
> 	place?
> 
> I hate corporate arrogance - especially this kind of arrogance.
> 
> This kind of bullshit is PRECISELY what the US DOJ was after when they threw
> the whole library (instead of one book) at Microsoft.
> 
> --
> -- 
> Karl Denninger (karl at denninger.net)  Web: http://childrens-justice.org
> Isn't it time we started putting KIDS first?  See the above URL for
> a plan to do exactly that!
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 11:30:32AM +1100, Larry Blunk wrote:
> >   I just ran across the following article in
> > Microsoft's Knowledbase.  See the following URL:
> > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q250/2/63.ASP.
> >  Anyone know what this is about?
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