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

["W. Chris Shank" <shankwc999@yahoo.com>]

you are right on the money regarding what i want to accomplish. i'll look 
into the program you linked. 

thanks

On Thursday 14 March 2002 07:54 pm, you wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 18:38, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> > isn't wins only used for SMB routing across subnets? these machines would
> > all be on the same network.
>
> No. Wins is a centralized service where win32 clients go to find out who
> has what name. On large networks this is very important. Without wins,
> you will have a significant amount of broadcast traffic as every box
> 'announces' itself to every other box. Wins make that not happen. You
> can also use wins to facilitate smb connectivity across subnets.
>
> > > >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?
> >
> > yes. but this network is likely to grow over time and i may not be the
> > one who manages it (for a church), so i wanted to have it as Plug n Play
> > as possible, in case someone decides to buy a new machine and 'just plug
> > it in'
>
> hosts files are most certainly not the way to go. They scale badly. An
> ideal solution would be to setup a name server with some sort of dynamic
> dns. This would probably be a non-trivial task, but it would require
> next to no maintenance until you ran out of DHCP leases. You could
> probably use something along the lines of this:
> http://www.thismetalsky.org/files/dhcp_dns/
>
> If all you're worried about are windows file shares, you will not need a
> name server. You should be fine with just a WINS server. If for some
> reason you'll need names to resolve for non-smb purposes, then dynamic
> dns is the way to go.

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