[Samba] Joining a domain controller with a conflict name

[Tom Skeren]

Andrew Bartlett wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 16:41 -0700, Ephi Dror wrote:
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>>Hi Andrew,
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>>Thanks Andrew for your reply.
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>>I was not quite understood one thing.
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>>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.
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>This is the sole responsibility of the IT department.  Like windows,
>Samba will use the name it is given.
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>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.  
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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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