On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: >> >> How are you resolving IP adresses on your network? >> >> What is resolving smb names? (or netbios names as they are sometimes >> called). >> >> > > OK I think I need to go back to basics here, I'm feeling quite stupid about > the whole thing. > I can't say with any confidence why they were working (perhaps partially) > before and are now not. I have an IPCop box as the gateway for the > workstations. I thought that was providing name resolution via dnsmasq, I > may be showing up my lack of knowledge by that statement! IPCop is > providing dhcp, and for a couple of boxes static addresses (fixed leases), > the primary dns option being set to the ip address of the ipcop box. It > also had some entries in it's hosts file. > What would be the best way of providing dns for the local network - can > IPCop do it? If so how? I'm missing something...
yes, allocate all the machines a fixed ip address via dhcp, and put all the host names into hosts (this is all done via the ipcop gui). > > For now, I'm going to go back to static addressing and hosts files for the > workstations. I have to get this working at a basic level and while I'd > prefer dhcp that now has to take second place. > Roger > > >
