-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dana Harding wrote: > > Building a netbios hosts file and using the '-H <netbios hosts file>' > option in the script that runs nmbd on your samba DC might do the > trick. If not - at least it's easy to try ;) > I had not thought of this option, but it should work in this case as well. I have never really used Netbios since I was an early adopter of DNS on my home LAN. You may run into problems with a segmented network (ie. a network with more than one subnet) with this solution. > > Dana Harding ----- Original Message ----- > > I have a school with a few hundred WinXP Pro systems. They are all on > a Samba domain controlled server for authentication and home > directories. It works great except for some reason some names will > not resolve. I am using IPcop to set hostnames for static systems on > the network. IPcop is the DNS server for the network. If IPcop knows > the name and IP of a local system it will resolve that IP. All the > Linux workstations resolve all names correctly but it seems like > Windows will not resolve a hostname unless there is a Samba server > running on it. That is really stupid and what I would expect from > Microsoft but not helpfull at all. I have servers that privoleged > staff need to access from WinXP via Firefox and don't know squat > about Windows so I would like if someone could help me figure out > what is wrong with it, all joking aside. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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