On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Joe Demeny wrote: > The Windows clients are configured to look up the Samba PDC machine > for both DNS and WINS. The Windows clients seem to be able to find > other machines as well as the PDC: > > Z:\>ping pilot-ws > > Pinging pilot-ws [10.10.10.34] with 32 bytes of data: > > Reply from 10.10.10.34: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 ... > Z:\>ping mail > > Pinging mail [10.10.10.253] with 32 bytes of data: > > Reply from 10.10.10.253: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 ... > Z:\>ping mail.mycustomer.com > > Pinging mail.mycustomer.com [aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd] with 32 bytes of data: > > Reply from aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
This is because "mail" is most likely the systems netbios name and therefore the registered netbios name in the WINS database, a dotted domain name name is unusual as a netbios name but "mail.mycustomer.com" wouldn't be a proper one as it is too long. So "mail.mycustomer.com" will always be a domain (hosts/DNS) type lookup - the systems are not asking Samba for such resolution. > What I want is that the Windows machines resolve both mail and > mail.mycustomer.com to 10.10.10.253. > > On the Samba PDC machine in /etc/hosts I have: > > 10.10.10.253 mail.mycustomer.com mail As Dennis mentioned you can use the "hosts" file in Windows as well - it will, in most cases be searched first for such name resolution (as it is in 'nix). > In smb.conf I have: > > wins support = Yes > dns proxy = No > name resolve order = wins host lmhosts broadcast That's only a directive for the running Samba's own lookups - it doesn't propagate to to clients. Best solution, if your DNS handles outside requests as well, is to use split horizon DNS (BIND views, as Dennis mentioned, if using that product). -- Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
