Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:54:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jswarner@uswest.net (Joe Warner) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Stands Out! Message-ID: <200101230154.SAA07732@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <3A6A4F3C.E31D628D@uswest.net> from "Joe Warner" at Jan 20, 2001 07:53:48 PM
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> Yesterday at 4:00pm and as luck would have it, > someone at work stuck the end of a screwdriver > where they shouldn't have and dropped our whole > data center. > > After a couple of hours of working with the > rest of our IS staff to get all the servers back > up, I noticed something peculiar. We were > still having problems with one of our routers > (the config file got blown away) and we > kept checking "Network Neighborhood" on > a Windows machine to see what workstations > were showing up under our domain. For a > long time, the only workstations that would > show up was our primary pdc and the > FreeBSD 3.4 workstation I have in my > cubicle! We all got a chuckle out of this > but I still don't know why this happened. > > Does anyone have any ideas? FreeBSD systems tend to boot faster than Windows systems, by a large margin. In general, this usually means that a FreeBSD system running Samba will, unless it's configured to deliberately lose, _always_ win the election for PDC. When Samba first started with partial support, InterJets were winning the election and knocking NT servers off the net. I tried to convince them that this was a feature, and if they didn't like it, they should buy faster booting NT machines... This isn't a problem with the developement branch of Samba, I'm told, since Luke Howard has supposedly had real PDC code there for a long time. However, unless the domain secret is known, generally, this will disappear everything on your network for any system which believes the election was won legitimately, and grabs the FreeBSD box as the PDC. If you reboot the FreeBSD box in question, the problem will "go away". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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