[Gllug] Re: FUD? MS Small Business Server and Samba no-no

[Jon Dye]

Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
> At work we have MS Small Business Server. Please don't laugh, too much.
> 
> It used to do the print serving, but it kept screwing up so they used a
> Linux box I'd set up, and that worked ok-ish only the printers often
> complained of lack of memory (Adobe PS drivers) & oh yes, the server had
> to be rebooted a couple of times...
> 
> This was blamed on the fact that SBS gets stroppy if there is another
> file server on the network - ie the Linux machine. To the objection that
> there was already another Windows machine serving files, it was claimed
> that it was different if it was another Windows machine, SBS didn't mind
> *that*.
 >
> It sounds like FUD to me. It wouldn't be at all surprising if the Linux
> box did cause problems because it wasn't set up right, but I can't
> believe that co-existence is categorically impossible - and if I can
> make the case they won't have to spend lots more money.

Could the problem be to do with the "master browser", "os level", 
"preferred master" and "domain master" settings being set incorrectly so 
that the Linux machine is trying to take over from the SBS machine as 
master browser or domain master?

JD
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