RE: [PLUG] Samba/DNS question

["kaze" <kaze@voicenet.com>]

--> kmhryhpdblyx@spammotel.com
--> I was following along until I read this.  There are only 2 windows
--> computers 1-2 Linux computers.  I know where to set up the WINS
--> configuration in the two Windows computers.  If I was going to set it
--> up in only one place to ¨keep it simple¨, where would that be?
-->
-->
--> lmhosts on the windows machines.  It's like a hosts file for Lan
--> Manager networking.

The DHCP _server_ is manually configured and this is where global changes
are made.
The DHCP server gives out the:
* host's IP address and subnet mask (host computes network address and
broadcast address)
* default gateway
* DNS1, DNS2, (DNS3)
* WiNS1, WiNS2
* Other stuff: DNS suffix, DNS search order, Microsoft "node type"

Clients (DHCP clients) are manually configured with hostnames, get
everything else from DHCP.

(It is very possable that the *nix clients can't get the WiNS server IPs and
Microsoft "node types" via DHCP though... I'm not sure.)

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