W. Chris Shank on Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:39:28 -0500


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


On Thursday 14 March 2002 03:53 pm, you wrote:
> The simplest to do in samba would be to create a minimal
> smb.conf config (like in the samba manual), put them all
done
> together on the same physical subnet and put them
> all together in the same workgroup -- windows netbios names
> will appear as whichever "computer name" you set them to,
done
> the linux netbios name will default to its dns name ("machine"
> withouth the mydomain.com).
yes, this is true -

but how do i get the browser to recognize the web server as server.domain.com?

>
> epike
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm setting up a small intranet LAN with a Linux box running SAMBA as the
> > primary server around several windows 98 boxes. I'm using DNS to assign
> > IP 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 internal DNS box? I've been perusing
> > how-to's, bit i'm a little dense and need something in simple language.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > -Chris
> >
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