Re: [Samba] Joining a domain controller with a conflict name

2005-04-14 Thread Raymond Lillard
Tom Skeren wrote: Jonathan Johnson wrote: Again, this is the responsibility of the network administrator. That's why a password is required to join a domain, so those who don't know the password (read: your users) can't mess up your network. As an administrator, it's your responsibility to make

RE: [Samba] Joining a domain controller with a conflict name

2005-04-14 Thread Ephi Dror
Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 8:15 AM To: Tom Skeren Cc: Andrew Bartlett; samba@lists.samba.org; Ephi Dror Subject: Re: [Samba] Joining a domain controller with a conflict name Tom Skeren wrote: > Jonathan Johnson wrote: > >> Again, this is the r

Re: [Samba] Joining a domain controller with a conflict name

2005-04-14 Thread Jonathan Johnson
Tom Skeren wrote: Jonathan Johnson wrote: Again, this is the responsibility of the network administrator. That's why a password is required to join a domain, so those who don't know the password (read: your users) can't mess up your network. As an administrator, it's your responsibility to make

Re: [Samba] Joining a domain controller with a conflict name

2005-04-14 Thread Tom Skeren
Jonathan Johnson wrote: Tom Skeren wrote: Andrew Bartlett wrote: On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 16:41 -0700, Ephi Dror wrote: 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

Re: [Samba] Joining a domain controller with a conflict name

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 23:40 -0700, Jonathan Johnson wrote: > In a purely Windows world, a naming conflict will be detected on the > network as soon as the second machine boots up. You'll get a message on > screen to the effect of "another computer with this name exists on the > network." Since

Re: [Samba] Joining a domain controller with a conflict name

2005-04-13 Thread Jonathan Johnson
Tom Skeren wrote: Andrew Bartlett wrote: On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 16:41 -0700, Ephi Dror wrote: 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

Re: [Samba] Joining a domain controller with a conflict name

2005-04-13 Thread Tom Skeren
Andrew Bartlett wrote: On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 16:41 -0700, Ephi Dror wrote: Hi Andrew, Thanks Andrew for your reply. I was not quite understood one thing. 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 su

RE: [Samba] Joining a domain controller with a conflict name

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 16:41 -0700, Ephi Dror wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Thanks Andrew for your reply. > > I was not quite understood one thing. > > 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 > th

RE: [Samba] Joining a domain controller with a conflict name

2005-04-13 Thread Ephi Dror
rs, Phi -Original Message- From: Andrew Bartlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 3:52 PM To: Ephi Dror Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] Joining a domain controller with a conflict name On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 15:40 -0700, Ephi Dror wrote: > Hi

Re: [Samba] Joining a domain controller with a conflict name

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 15:40 -0700, Ephi Dror wrote: > Hi All, > > Is it a way to prevent joining a domain with a netbios name that already > used by other domain member?. > Is it the responsibility of the IT person to make sure the name is > unique? Yes. Otherwise it would not be possible to s

[Samba] Joining a domain controller with a conflict name

2005-04-13 Thread Ephi Dror
Hi All, Is it a way to prevent joining a domain with a netbios name that already used by other domain member?. For example, if I have SAMBA server "SA1" already joined a domain and then I go to a different SAMBA server and make it join the same domain with the name "SA1" also. What I found