Hi everybody, I' m using a linux (RH5) box as a Samba server and gateway plus a cisco router to access internet via ISDN. My linux box address is 192.168.1.1. From the windows boxes I want to use the linux as a file and printing server as well as a gateway to the internet. On the windows clients I've set up TCP/IP static addresses to be 192.168.1.x , I disabled WINS, and configured the gateway address to 192.168.1.1. Now I've got a problem with DNS configuration: -If I disable DNS I don't have any access to the outside world but all local services work well. -If I activate DNS and enter the DNS address of my provider (a "real" internet address), access to remote and local servers via any protocol work well (which makes me think that my linux box routing table and ip forwarding are correct) BUT when I make local requests with telnet for example (telnet linuxbox) the router first dials up ... asks the providers DNS to resolve name ... fails and return... resolve the name localy and succeeds ! I tried to add the server name and IP address in the hosts.sam and lmhosts.sam files under windows directory without any success. Do I have to set up DNS on my linux box or can I simply configure my windows clients to do normal name resolution : lookup hosts file BEFORE asking nameserver ! Thanks, bruno - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
