Re: [leaf-user] [OT] Windows 2003 SBS behind leaf router

2008-09-09 Thread Boris
Hej all, hej list, first let me tank you all for your thoughts in my case. What did I do? I hard-coded the server's IP into the leaf-box's /etc/resolv.conf and have a kind of DNS-cascade through the leaf-box now. This is a second choice after making the leaf-box secondary dns-server for the

Re: [leaf-user] [OT] Windows 2003 SBS behind leaf router

2008-09-05 Thread Gordon Bos
Boris, If you run Windows 2003 Server as a domain-controller for Windows XP or Vista workstations then the Windows 2003 server *has* to be the DNS server and possibly DHCP as well. A typical symptom of having a different server perform these roles is when logging onto the domain

Re: [leaf-user] [OT] Windows 2003 SBS behind leaf router

2008-09-05 Thread Bob Gregory
Gordon writes: ...If you run Windows 2003 Server as a domain-controller for Windows XP or Vista workstations then the Windows 2003 server *has* to be the DNS server and possibly DHCP as well... True, but the fact is that if you run Windows 2003 *SBS* (Small Business Server) *at all*, then

Re: [leaf-user] [OT] Windows 2003 SBS behind leaf router

2008-09-05 Thread Trev Peterson
Hello, For Active Directory (AD) to work you need a DNS server that accepts dynamic changes. BIND can be configured to do this but it is not trivial. I'm not sure if DJBDNS (tinyDNS or DNScache) can be configured to do this. DNS is the heart of how AD gives information on which server is the

Re: [leaf-user] [OT] Windows 2003 SBS behind leaf router

2008-09-04 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
Boris, Is your SBS pointed to itself for DNS? It should be. You can use the DNS server on Leaf as a forwarder. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based

Re: [leaf-user] [OT] Windows 2003 SBS behind leaf router

2008-09-04 Thread Bob Gregory
-user] [OT] Windows 2003 SBS behind leaf router Hej all, I'm sorry to annoy you with that off-topic theme, but I'm quite sure there is somebody with the right knowledge on this list because the setup is quite common and I'm hoping strongly for help. Here's the story: I have a small