Ski, 

In theory, that should work. You'll have to keep in mind, though, that AD 
stores other records (usually SRV records) in sub-domains (i.e. 
_sites.example.com, _tcp.example.com). That may not be relevant to you if the 
snap-in is simply looking for A and PTR records for a given host. But, in case 
that's not all (you mentioned AD), keep the above in mind. 


Ryan 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ski Kacoroski" <[email protected]> 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 1:34:55 PM 
Subject: [lopsa-discuss] Microsoft Shared Folders MMC plugin OR how do a fake 
dns responses question 

Hi, 

I am working with an EMC NAS and it uses the Microsoft Shared Folders MMC 
plugin to manage the CIFS shares, sessions, and open files. Shares and open 
files work, but sessions hang because for each session the MMC plugin attempts 
to do a forward and reverse DNS lookup on the client name and IP and times out. 
Since we are not a complete Microsoft AD shop (we use bind), our clients do not 
have dns records. I am wondering if: 

1. Is it possible to turn off the reverse DNS lookups in the Shared Folders MMC 
plugin (preferred solution) 

2. If not #1, would it be possible to have a 'fake' dns server that just 
returns the the query information and the answer. Then I could just point a 
single management client to the 'fake' server and still get session mgmt 
working. 

cheers, 

ski 

--- 
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it 
connected to the entire universe" John Muir 

Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, Unix Admin 
206-501-9803, ski98033 on IRC and most IM services 

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