On 13 Aug 99, at 2:52, Robert Nicol wrote:
> 1) can my DNS be set up to handle netbios lookups -
> athouratatively, and if so how? That may solve part to the
> problem.
Look at the DNS and WINS proxy options in the smb.conf man page. I
think the DNS proxy option is the one you want (assuming one of your
samba boxes is acting as your WINS server). The guys on the samba
list should be able to help if you have problems. My experience with
DNS and samba is limited to trying it in a caching only setup. I had
the windoze and linux client machines pointing to my samba/DNS/ipmasq
gateway box as a DNS host, along with my ISP's DNS servers. It
turned out to be more trouble than it was worth to run DNS locally,
so I turned it off and things work much better. I have 5 nodes at
home (plus the server/gateway) and I'm using hosts files for IP name
resolution, and WINS for NetBIOS names, and everything works fine.
Netscape is the only client app that seems to forget to use the hosts
file once in a while (sometimes it can't find the web server on the
gateway). The squid proxy on the gateway also caches DNS queries
when the Internet link is up, so I really don't need DNS at all.
If your main goal is to learn DNS/bind, then get the O'Riley book and
become a guru ;) Then you can teach me...
Steve
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