__/ [ Linonut ] on Monday 05 February 2007 20:29 \__
> After takin' a swig o' grog, yttrx belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> Or, as has happened much more often in my experience, if you're
>> controlling the desktops of a thousand employees and there's an emergency
>> windows update that the big boss wants implemented immediately and
>> "pushed" by the DC to all those machines, EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM NEEDS
>> TO REBOOT TO MAKE THE UPDATE WORK.
>>
>> Now, that may be fine for some people, but if 50 of those people are
>> developers waiting for a build to finish over the course of four days,
>> or a complex DB query to come back, there could be a lot of trouble and
>> possibly mountains of lost revenue.
>>
>> Its a stupid system, and its a serious problem.
>
> Not to mention the onslaught on the authentication server if too many
> reboots occur at about the same time.
The Microsoft Zombie Army will force Samba out of the Enterprise
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| Vista is to ship with a new version of SMB, called SMB2. At
| minute 40 in this FLOSS Weekly podcast, Jeremy Allison of
| Samba talks of behavior that will flood the network with
| 1500 packets just to do a network file delete. This will
| turn Vista computers into a DOS (Denial of Service) attack
| upon Samba based computers on the network.
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http://www.twit.tv/floww14
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