master browser, os level etc

[Pierre MONDIE]

At 14:41 30/06/99 +1000, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am confused (again) around the problems that can occur when you have
>things like os level = 33, preferred master = true etc.
>
>Does this confuse clients that think that the domain master browser is in
>fact the PDC, and thus the logon server?

OS level is used for browser elections only : there are a few interesting
articles in MS-KB aka Technet about this -search on the "browser","elections".

But there can be a problem if a given Samba server, as a RFC-NBNS, publish
bad information about NetBIOS names->IP adresses mapping. Deliberate
exploits samples with Perl scripts have been written demonstrating this by
Paul ASHTON, if I remember well.


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