On Friday 09 May 2008, Joe Demeny wrote:
> I see... let me ask, just to make it clear for myself: Is there any
> knob in Samba which could tell the Windows workstations "look at WINS
> first, look at my /etc/hosts second, then ask the DNS resolver"?
Not really outside of changes you may make with
On Thursday 08 May 2008 12:00:56 pm Chris Smith wrote:
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> > What I want is that the Windows machines resolve both mail and
> > mail.mycustomer.com to 10.10.10.253.
> >
> > On the Samba PDC machine in /etc/hosts I have:
> >
> > 10.10.10.253 mail.mycustomer.com mail
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On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Joe Demeny wrote:
> The Windows clients are configured to look up the Samba PDC machine
> for both DNS and WINS. The Windows clients seem to be able to find
> other machines as well as the PDC:
>
> Z:\>ping pilot-ws
>
> Pinging pilot-ws [10.10.10.34] with 32 bytes of data:
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 05:08:24 pm you wrote:
> run a separate BIND9 installation on 10.10.10.34 and have it resolve DNS
> for .34 and .253, and in your dhcpd.conf specify 10.10.10.34 as the DNS
> server.
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> Joe Demeny wrote:
> > [...]
Well, the Windows workstations all have static addresses an
run a separate BIND9 installation on 10.10.10.34 and have it resolve DNS
for .34 and .253, and in your dhcpd.conf specify 10.10.10.34 as the DNS
server.
Joe Demeny wrote:
On my network I have one Samba PDC (Version 3.0.28 running on FreeBSD
6.3-PRERELEASE), one mail server (FreeBSD + Dovecot +
On my network I have one Samba PDC (Version 3.0.28 running on FreeBSD
6.3-PRERELEASE), one mail server (FreeBSD + Dovecot + Postfix) and a
dozen or so WinXP/Win2K machines. The WinXP/Win2K machines all have
static IP addresses.
The Windows clients are configured to look up the Samba PDC machine f
