-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Luca Berra wrote: >> I don't think dhclient should be relied upon, since it would be nice if >> the system would handle changing from a static IP to a dynamic IP. > > well, we should at least be able to extract info that only dhclient has > and put it somewere that can be accessed by ifup-post. >
But if it is only going to be info that is in /etc/resolv.conf, why not use that? >> But you do bring up a good point about WINS, it could be an idea to have >> dhclient update the WINS ip for samba. The samba team at one stage had >> plans to implement this some other way (possibly having samba read it >> directly from the lease file?), but it may be worthwhile looking at. > > atm i have samba including an /etc/samba/dhcp.conf which is rewritten by > dhclient. > Can you send me the changes you have made to get this working off-list please? > we should also change the request settings in dhclient to include > requesting for wins server > > request; > used to work with my dhcp-3 server but does not seem to work on some > windows dhcp server for which i have no control. > Does requesting it by name work? Should be "netbios-name-servers" or "netbios-dd-server". I had "request netbios-name-servers;", but this is to my own dhcp3 server. Also, we should probably see if we can't get ddns client updates working to a Windows DNS/DHCP server. Someone on another ml I'm on posted this a while back: " > I just used this in my /etc/dhclient.conf (to some Windows DHCP/DNS > machine): > > send fqdn.fqdn "pike"; > send fqdn.encoded off; > send fqdn.server-update on; > do-forward-updates on; " If someone could test this against a Windows DNS server (as some things look wrong, and the dhclient.conf man page knows nothing about "do-forward-updates"). BTW, if anyone on cooker has a real Windows domain (preferably win2k/AD etc etc), and you have some sway over the Mouse Consultants and Solitaire Experts (;-)), then I have some other things I will need tested sometime soon (samba3 AD-capable winbind for example). >> nmbd should probably be kicked anyway, since if you're not using wins, >> you would want to re-broadcast to find the master browser or start an >> election. But then maybe we need to split the smbd and nmbd init scripts >> (as SuSE has done). > > > i would second this splitting. i don't even use samba as server on my > laptop, but kicking nmbd and getting registered on the wins server is a > threat. > Hmmm, looks like we may need a /etc/sysconfig/samba (as this is how SuSE does it, they check in the smb init script if nmb should also be started/stopped/restarted at the same time for transtition to having theme seperate. Then, we could consider having an option there to update WINS server IP (or do you think the include method is better?). Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/CtwUrJK6UGDSBKcRAkAcAKCbzOEkn0R6LAC+cPiMjtxBzgUMzwCfQdM9 Uzg41VPo59oQeKtMlSl0t6g= =P5Ix -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ****************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. ******************************************************************
