Verify that the Novell servers are in the MS DNS for the zone the machines reside in. If DHCP is pushing out that each machine is a member of school.local dns zone, make sure in school.local under MS DNS that there's a static HOST entry for highschoolserver
Curtis McKay Network Administrator Belleville Township High School District 201 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris kuntzman Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 2:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [tech-geeks] Host Files - DNS We're running Novell, and have run into issues with workstations not finding the Novell tree. A quick fix for us is to simply add the Novell server information to the Host file on the locale machine. This Speeds up the login process for us also. Here is an example of what I put in the host file..... 192.168.0.55 highschoolserver Is there a way to do this same process via DNS/DHCP? Or a way to remotely change a host file via a script or something? This does happen both on XP and Windows 7, simply adding the ip and server name to the host file, fixes the problem. Now.. I figure it's easier to do this on all machines, instead of waiting for a machine to stop finding the tree. We now have a mix of SUSE Linux and Netware servers, which seems to be causing more of this problem. We use MS for our DNS/DHCP. (2003 Servers) Thanks Chris THIS TRANSMISSION IS INTENDED AND RESTRICTED FOR USE BY THE ABOVE ADDRESSEE ONLY. IT MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR PRIVILEGED INFORMATION EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER FEDERAL OR STATE LAW. IN THE EVENT SOME OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY RECEIVES THIS TRANSMISSION, SAID RECIPIENT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT ANY DISSEMINATION, DISTRIBUTION, OR DUPLICATION OF THIS TRANSMISSION OR ITS CONTENTS IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU SHOULD RECEIVE THIS TRANSMISSION IN ERROR, PLEASE CALL US IMMEDIATELY AT 217.824.4951, DELETE THE FILE FROM YOUR SYSTEM, AND DESTROY ANY HARD COPIES OF THIS TRANSMISSION. THANK YOU. Taylorville Community Unit School District #3 Taylorville, Illinois
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