Re: Samba and Pump

1999-11-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Chris Abbey wrote: > > At 17:38 11/8/99 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >The problem is that for DHCP, the configuration can change *at any > >time*. Unlike BOOTP, where you get a configuration at one point and > >that's it, with DHCP you need to be able to change at runtime. > > Right, I unders

Re: Samba and Pump

1999-11-08 Thread Chris Abbey
At 17:38 11/8/99 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >The problem is that for DHCP, the configuration can change *at any >time*. Unlike BOOTP, where you get a configuration at one point and >that's it, with DHCP you need to be able to change at runtime. Right, I understand DHCP... actually it can't be

Re: Samba and Pump

1999-11-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Chris Abbey wrote: > > At 15:05 11/8/99 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >This is true, and that's a valid request. Service information exported > >via DHCP needs to get around. > > > >However, something we should think about would be if there is a better > >way to do this than having pump edit N

Re: Samba and Pump

1999-11-08 Thread Chris Abbey
At 15:05 11/8/99 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >This is true, and that's a valid request. Service information exported >via DHCP needs to get around. > >However, something we should think about would be if there is a better >way to do this than having pump edit N different random files in the >sys

Re: Samba and Pump

1999-11-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
JF Martinez wrote: > > > > Isn't this something that should get fixed in Samba, rather than pump? > > > > Yes. But I still would like pump making for Wins servers what it does > about DNS servers: find them and put the right value in the right > place. This is DHCP, or Pump work not Samba's >

Re: Samba and Pump

1999-11-08 Thread JF Martinez
> > > > This is a message for all those people who replied that setting > > interfaces was not necessary. In fact it is neccessary when you use a > > Wins server: it seems Samba needs to send its IP address in order to > > register with the wins server and that for some reason it will not send >

Re: Samba and Pump

1999-11-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
JF Martinez wrote: > > > > > > > Pump does a magnificent job for people who have to set their > > networking interfaces throughg DHCP. And it works on Token Rings > > despite what the doc says about not sure it works on it. > > > > Now Samba does not work if I don't add the interfaces=myipnumber

Re: Samba and Pump

1999-11-08 Thread JF Martinez
> > > Pump does a magnificent job for people who have to set their > networking interfaces throughg DHCP. And it works on Token Rings > despite what the doc says about not sure it works on it. > > Now Samba does not work if I don't add the interfaces=myipnumber/mask > parm in the smb.conf and

Re: Samba and Pump

1999-11-06 Thread rsteffen
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, John Summerfield wrote: > > So for next version it would be real nice if pump was able to handle > > Samba files (possibly through include files) or at the very least > > allowed retrieval of the info about interfaces and WINS servers in > > order for an external program being

Samba and Pump

1999-11-02 Thread JF Martinez
Pump does a magnificent job for people who have to set their networking interfaces throughg DHCP. And it works on Token Rings despite what the doc says about not sure it works on it. Now Samba does not work if I don't add the interfaces=myipnumber/mask parm in the smb.conf and that also means

Re: Samba and Pump

1999-01-02 Thread John Summerfield
> > > Pump does a magnificent job for people who have to set their > networking interfaces throughg DHCP. And it works on Token Rings > despite what the doc says about not sure it works on it. > > Now Samba does not work if I don't add the interfaces=myipnumber/mask > parm in the smb.conf and