Brian Stults wrote:
Here is one concern of theirs, though, that I don't understand. They
said one problem with linux is that it will trick their network into
thinking that my linux box is the main server, thus bringing down a
system of over 2000 users. I cannot imagine how this would happen. The
only thing I can think of is the issue of the master browser in samba.
If it is "elected", I suppose my machine could force itself to be the
server. I don't know enough about samba, though, to know if this is
possible. However, if I don't run a samba server, it wouldn't be a
problem, right? Can anyone else think of why this might happen?
I'm willing to be that's exactly what they're talking about. There was
quite a to do about this a year or so ago when it happened at some large
company which then banned linux. I believe you have to explicitly tell
samba in the config file to become the master browser though... I don't
think being elected is a problem. However, I'm not a samba expert either...
The only other similar problem I can think of is vmware related. At one
point, I was running vmware on a Mandrake 6.0 (or 6.1?) box and it
caused a packet storm while I was on vacation (probably my fault for
leaving vmware running while I was on vacation). I never figured out for
sure what the problem was but I'm pretty sure it was vmware's fault
(vmware 1.x).
