Re: [PLUG] DNS, DHCP, SAMBA & Windows

[Jim Foster <jif@computer.org>]

At 03:48 PM 3/14/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm setting up a small intranet LAN with a Linux box running SAMBA as the

How small?  Are these all desktop machines?

> primary server around several windows 98 boxes. I'm using DNS to assign IP

Do you mean DHCP?

> addresses and I'd like the machines to be able to refer to each other by name
> (machine.mydomain.com) . I'm having difficulty understanding how to do this.
> I assume I need to setup a DNS server on my lan (which will also be connected
> to the internet via a seperate firewall device), but how do i get the DNS to
> update IP/name pairs in conjunction with DHCP? What do I need to do on the
> windows machines besides? Wins? or just configure DNS and point it to my

I think samba can be a wins server.  The 98 machines would be wins clients.

> internal DNS box? I've been perusing how-to's, bit i'm a little dense and
> need something in simple language.

Have you considered using a hosts file?

> thanks

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