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
