Hi, DNS is DNS and WINS is WINS. XP Machines in a Samba3 Domain with WINS will resolve their names by WINS. What must be exactly the same is the netbios name of your workstations( if it is part of your dns-name). You cannot change your netbios name five times a day without put for each name an entry in your samba db. I think what your dns administrator will do is give each machine a dynamic ip with exactly the same host name.
----------------------------------------------- EDV Daniel Müller Leitung EDV Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus Paul-Lechler-Str. 24 72076 Tübingen Tel.: 07071/206-463, Fax: 07071/206-499 eMail: [email protected] Internet: www.tropenklinik.de ----------------------------------------------- -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von [email protected] Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. Dezember 2010 02:31 An: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Betreff: Re: [Samba] name resolution: dns name different to windows machinename > > --- Original message --- > Subject: Re: [Samba] name resolution: dns name different to windows > machinename > From: Gaiseric Vandal <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, 20/12/2010 5:15 PM > > I am not sure how you would have a DNS server assign random names. > But if > you aren't going to have the correct entries for the XP machine in > DNS, then > you probably should not have any DNS entries for those machines. XP > machines can register their hostnames directly in DNS (if the DNS > server > supports it.) In general I don't think workstations machines need to > be in > DNS at all since (unless you have shared folders or printers.) It's certainly easier when a help desk request comes in to ask the user for the machine name label, then try and get the machines IP addy. rdp://acct1 rdp://lab7 rdp://eng21 rdp://admin5 soooooo But yeah, WinXP and up have no problem doing this. dhcp can be a big help as well. > > I general > DISABLE dynamic updates in DNS and don't have DNS assignments/static > IP's > for most XP machines. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Marcus > Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 5:17 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Samba] name resolution: dns name different to windows > machine name > > Hi, > > we are running a samba domain controller as master with activated > WINS. > The machine name of each WinXP client is set manually during the > installation initial process. Each client is using the WINS server of > our domain controller. The WinXP clients are getting their IP by a > global DNS Server, which sets the DNS and reverse DNS entry > identically > to the windos machine name. > Now the administrator of the DNS server is planning to change the DNS > and reverse DNS concept in the way that the DNS and reverse DNS entry > will be not identically to the windows machine name any more. The > WinXP > clients will get a generic, randomly set DNS/reverse DNS entry. > Does this have any effects for functionality of my samba domain > controller and/or the WinXP clients? > > Thanks, > Marcus > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
