On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 06:22, Michael Keightley wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:06:34AM -0400, Chad Vincent wrote: > Could we maybe get round using WINS by using Dynamic DNS so the Netbios name > always matches the IP address? Then change "name resolve order" so it used DNS > before WINS. We use Bind 9 and ISC DHCP v3 already so it is possible to setup. > Or am I talking rubbish? > > > Michaek > -- > Michael Keightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tel: +44 131 240 3137 > Systems Manager, Quadstone Limited, Fax: +44 131 220 4492 > 16 Chester Street, Edinburgh EH3 7RA, Scotland http://www.quadstone.com
Yes and no. Technically that will work, however, dynamic DNS does not offer the same information as WINS does currently in a Samba implementation. Since Samba is not emulating an AD domain controller, but an NT4 domain controller, the workstations are expecting certain information to be returned about machines (the various flags after the names you see in WINS) as far as their capabilities are concerned. This is offered in WINS (also in DNS, through the use of SRV records, but Samba does not generate these currently and I don't know how the workstations would interact, finding the entries it would expect an AD controller to use in DNS and then finding an NT4 domain controller there). If you're all on the same subnet, this is not a problem because it can find the same information through broadcast resolution, but who's all on the same subnet these days? :) The Samba3 HOWTO covers this very well under name resolution. Clint -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
