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

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

No idea

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

If you're using Bind, why not have your DHCP server be allowed to do
updates?  Esp if you're using a seperate subnet or block for your DHCP
range, it's easy.  Then you'd have proper forward and reverse lookups.

John
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