Re: Domain question

2005-07-14 Thread Doofus
Rob Brenart wrote: Dick Davies wrote: * Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0745 18:45]: It is the job of the dhcp server to assign them IP numbers. But that doesn't guarantee that a given named machine will get the same IP each time which is what the OP wanted. Why don't you

Re: Domain question

2005-07-14 Thread Rob Brenart
Dick Davies wrote: * Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0745 18:45]: It is the job of the dhcp server to assign them IP numbers. But that doesn't guarantee that a given named machine will get the same IP each time which is what the OP wanted. Why don't you just map MAC addres

Re: Domain question

2005-07-14 Thread Paul Scott
Dick Davies wrote: * Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0745 18:45]: It is the job of the dhcp server to assign them IP numbers. But that doesn't guarantee that a given named machine will get the same IP each time which is what the OP wanted. Why don't you just map MAC addres

Re: Domain question

2005-07-14 Thread Dick Davies
* Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0745 18:45]: > >It is the job of the dhcp server to assign them IP numbers. > > > But that doesn't guarantee that a given named machine will get the same IP > each time which is what the OP > wanted. Why don't you just map MAC addresses to IPs? isc-dhcpd can

Re: Domain question

2005-07-14 Thread Doofus
Rob Brenart wrote: John Hasler wrote: I don't really care yet about any kind of centralized user management or whatnot, what I care about is for the machines to be able to see each other by machinename... You can put the name and IP of every machine into /etc/host on every other machi

Re: Domain question

2005-07-14 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Rob Brenart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I have a handful of computers at home, turning > into a home office... > servers are debian sarge, laptops are WindowsXP > I set the domain for > the debian machines as ODS, but as of right now I > haven't done any such > thing for the XP ma

Re: Domain question

2005-07-14 Thread Paul Scott
John Hasler wrote: Rob Brenart writes: To the first point, I'm already running a DHCP server with no reservations... Then you do not have it configured correctly. Tell us what server you are using and how it is configured. ...when the laptops come and go I have no promise they'l

Re: Domain question

2005-07-14 Thread John Hasler
Rob Brenart writes: > To the first point, I'm already running a DHCP server with no > reservations... Then you do not have it configured correctly. Tell us what server you are using and how it is configured. > ...when the laptops come and go I have no promise they'll come back with > the same IP

Re: Domain question

2005-07-14 Thread Steve Witt
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Rob Brenart wrote: John Hasler wrote: I don't really care yet about any kind of centralized user management or whatnot, what I care about is for the machines to be able to see each other by machinename... You can put the name and IP of every machine into /etc/host on ev

Re: Domain question

2005-07-14 Thread Rob Brenart
John Hasler wrote: I don't really care yet about any kind of centralized user management or whatnot, what I care about is for the machines to be able to see each other by machinename... You can put the name and IP of every machine into /etc/host on every other machine, or you can install

Re: Domain question

2005-07-14 Thread John Hasler
> I don't really care yet about any kind of centralized user management or > whatnot, what I care about is for the machines to be able to see each > other by machinename... You can put the name and IP of every machine into /etc/host on every other machine, or you can install a dhcp server on one o

Domain question

2005-07-13 Thread Rob Brenart
So I have a handful of computers at home, turning into a home office... servers are debian sarge, laptops are WindowsXP I set the domain for the debian machines as ODS, but as of right now I haven't done any such thing for the XP machines because they complain about there not being a PDC fo

smtp domain question

2000-10-25 Thread Debian Ghost
Hey Guys, I have just changed DNS to point to a different domain. I changed from ghost.net.cfw.com to ghost.ntelos.net. I edited the /etc/exim.conf file to reflect the change, but for some reason when I telnet to smtp "ESMTP", it still thinks it is the old domain rather than the new. Is there a gl