> I'm getting really sick of not being able to do nfs mounts, remotely > query my box running mysql or ssh into my laptop.
> I've tried stoping samba, waiting a good 20 minutes and then > restarting it to no avail. > I'm just sick of the DNS not working right. Ditto. There are a couple of band-aids I use: I try to remember to write down my numerical IP each morning on a post-it so that if name resolution doesn't work I can still get in. If I forget, my dynamically-assigned box periodically queries a server and I sometimes have to look in the server's logs to find my IP. Also, I don't think that waiting 20 mins to restart samba helps; rather, wait just 5 minutes after restarting and if it didn't take, try restarting again. I haven't gone so far as to write a cron job to restart samba if it detects an incorrect DNS entry, but I've thought about doing so. Beyond that, however, ITS has promised that the upcoming deployment of Microsoft Active Directory will cure all DNS problems and give us correct authoritative DNS results with no time lag. I hope so, and I'm looking forward to it. Perhaps an ITS member of the list could give us an update on the AD project? -- Jon Beck, PhD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Assoc Professor, Computer Science 2162 Violette Hall Truman State University 660-785-7233 Kirksville, MO 63501 http://vh216202.truman.edu/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
