tit for tat I would guess. Samba did in fact work perfectly fine without DNS as did all the other machines....well accept I wasn't able to donwload patches from redhat or finish reading the article I was using on the web to do the tutorial to configure the machine without dns. :)
I little more clear of a disclaimer for us trolls would be helpful is all I meant. :) Other than that the doc is wonderfully written. On May 12, 2005 04:04 PM, Paul Gienger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > John H Terpstra wrote: > > >On Thursday 12 May 2005 13:43, Paul Gienger wrote: > > > > > >>> 1. > >>> > >>> Configure the name service switch (NSS) to handle WINS based > >>> name resolution. Since this system does not use a DNS server, it > >>> is safe to remove this option from the NSS configuration. Edit > >>> the /etc/nsswitch.conf file so that the hosts: entry looks like > >>> this: > >>> > >>>hosts: files wins > >>> > >>> > >>Given the context of that statement... there's nothing wrong with > >>removing dns from the line. HOWEVER - and this is a big one - I feel > >>pretty confidant that I can count on my fist how many times I'll > >>ever > >>run into a system that will be happy running with no dns. > >> > >> > > > >And I can not count the number of systems I have installed that work > >just fine > >without any DNS or internet access. Why should it be necessary to > >install DNS > >for a 5 user office that uses no internet access and that wants to > >keep > >things simple? > > > > > Well then I just showed my age ;) No office (or non-office) network* > I've been at has not used some sort of dns, if not internal, then the > server still wanted to be able to find some external site via the > ISP's > dns. I come from a time where the internet not existing is just not > within the realm of possibilities, I'd go as far as to claim blasphemy > if someone mentions it :-D > > *a network being 2+ computers. Plenty of my elder family members have > single dial up machines that do just fine without DNS when the modem > is > unplugged. > > -- > Paul Gienger Office: 701-281-1884 > Applied Engineering Inc. > Systems Architect Fax: 701-281-1322 > URL: www.ae-solutions.com mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > Vincent Yonemitsu Information Technology Services (905)639-3611 ext 153 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
