--- Rob Brenart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So I have a handful of computers at home, turning > into a home office... > servers are debian sarge, laptops are WindowsXP.... > I set the domain for > the debian machines as ODS, but as of right now I > haven't done any such > thing for the XP machines because they complain > about there not being a > PDC for that domain. > > I don't really care yet about any kind of > centralized user management or > whatnot, what I care about is for the machines to be > able to see each > other by machinename... right now I have to go by > IP, which aren't > reserved so it's kind of a pain. > > So is there a quick way to this solution, or do I > need to turn a debian > box into a PDC, can I even do that? > You can achieve what you want with SAMBA , a very good article that talks about configure yor samba as Domain Controller is at: http://www.linux-mag.com/2002-02/samba_01.html Also I think worthily to configure bind9 as a caching only server and include you names for your machines. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html Enjoy, hope this helps. Regards. -- Sergio Basurto J. If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. (Isaac Newton) -- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
