> My company uses a NT based LAN, which includes DHCP and DNS services. > > Recently, I installed Linux on one workstation, because I need to test > software running on that platform. I am planning to use Samba to share > some directories to users inside the lan. > > I had no problem configuring Samba (smb.conf file), and I apparently did > it right (the testparm program reported no errors). But testing "live" was > not that good. > > The first problem was when I tryied to use ping on the Linux machine: > - ping localhost went ok. > - ping <thishostname> was very faulty, and very strange: the IP address > resolved from the hostname was different than the "ping source" IP > address. > - ping <anotherhostname> was okay. > > I wondered if the problem could be with the DHCP or DNS server > configuration, but every other machine in my lab works fine (they are all > NT workstations). > > I currently have the opinion that the problem is within the DHCP client in > the Linux machine. Apparently it receives from the DHCP server an address > that shouldn�t be its, or it receives the correct address but alters it. > > Has anyone undergone the same situation? How can I solve this damn > problem? > > Alberto Lopes >
