samba - Aug 1998 - The Empire Strikes Back

Unbelievable! These guys get more and more disgusting each day.

But now I have a proof that Linux and all its free software community (samba
included) are
indeed growing and are indeed consideder a threat by M$. Expect more and dirtier
moves.

Can you guys point me to more material on the subject?

[]'s, Juan
>  From: "Le Quellec, Francis" <FLeQuell@Teknor.com>
>
>  Hi, we use a Windows NT to authenticate our users and I have a subnet with
a
>  Linux server as the router for that subnet.
>
>  I run samba-the-latest on Linux and I was told by a   Microsoft guy that
>  this server may be the cause of the security problem on the NT server.  It
>  seems that samba is corrupting the user database on the NT server and my
>  network admin thinks that the Linux server is the cause.
This is not (yet again) the scare that MS started over Samba
breaking NT? If an NT server database can be corrupted by
Samba queries, there is something drastically wrong with
NT, not with Samba.

If this is true then somebody needs to file with CERT, against NT <grin>.

At 04:42 AM 8/31/98 +1000, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro
wrote:
>Unbelievable! These guys get more and more disgusting each day.
>
>But now I have a proof that Linux and all its free software community
(samba included) are
>indeed growing and are indeed consideder a threat by M$. Expect more and
dirtier moves.
>
>Can you guys point me to more material on the subject?
>
>[]'s, Juan
>
>>  From: "Le Quellec, Francis" <FLeQuell@Teknor.com>
>>
>>  Hi, we use a Windows NT to authenticate our users and I have a subnet
with a
>>  Linux server as the router for that subnet.
>>
>>  I run samba-the-latest on Linux and I was told by a   Microsoft guy
that
>>  this server may be the cause of the security problem on the NT server.
It
>>  seems that samba is corrupting the user database on the NT server and
my
>>  network admin thinks that the Linux server is the cause.
>This is not (yet again) the scare that MS started over Samba
>breaking NT? If an NT server database can be corrupted by
>Samba queries, there is something drastically wrong with
>NT, not with Samba.
>
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