On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 08:06:38PM +1100, George Vieira wrote:
> My problem is that users are on DHCP and sometimes I get personA appearing
> in a telnet session as personB in the logs and plays up.
> The other thing also is that if a client comes along and adds his/her
> machien to the network, they will have no problems with telnet or whatever
> that's trying to resolve their name..
>
Dynamic DNS, or somesuch? Seems a solution to that problem. Next! :-)
> There are other reasons too just can't be bothered saying them all..
>
> thanks,
> George Vieira
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Kowalik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 6:00 PM
> To: George Vieira
> Cc: SLUG List
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux and WINS resolution.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 01:39:26PM +1100, George Vieira wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is there a way to get /etc/host.conf to check WINS servers too? I prefer
> to
> > add machines to the WINS server rather than the /etc/hosts file and keep
> > updating both. I know some of you would probably ask why not use Samba as
> a
> > WINS server but in the past I haven't been able to get it working so I
> > prefer another method first if possible.
> >
> UGH. Repeat after me, "I am crimanally insane."
> Unless you'd like to stuff around with gethostbyname(2) and friends, which
> use DNS, which funnily enough, is designed for this kind of thing, and not
> WINS, which is *^(*&^)(*^)(*& :-)
>
> slinky:~# grep -E '(wins|name\ resolve|dns)' /etc/samba/smb.conf
> wins support = yes
> name resolve order = hosts wins lmhosts bcast
> dns proxy = yes
>
> Insert those lines in [global] and restart Samba, and you have a non-NT WINS
> server. Also, may I suggest reading Chapter 7 of Using Samba, which is
> freeily avaliable online.
>
> There may be other methods by People Smarter Than Me[tm], but I much prefer
> using DNS, rather than WINS for these kind of things.
>
> > thanks,
> > George Vieira
> >
> >
> >
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