Samba related question.

[Andrew W. Gaunt]

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>On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, at 12:21pm, elawson at laconialaw.com wrote:
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>>>Just to cut to the chase, it looks as thought you would could make things
>>>better by setting the linux box up as a DNS server that serves a local
>>>domain
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>>That would be the rational way, but this person has zero experience with
>>Linux and telling him, "OK, now we are going to set up a DNS" might put
>>him over the edge.
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I suppose one could be easily scared off by the perceived complexity DNS 
because it is complicated.
I don't pretent to be an expert, however, when I decided to set mine up 
I found  that much of my fear
was unwarranted and that getting it to "do what I want" was not so bad 
after all. One of the main reasons
decided to use it as opposed to other methods is its abilty 
interoperabilty with msny platforms as opposed
to just a few. Wins is doomed. Even Microsoft wishes it would go away, 
who can disagree with them
on that?

I do use DHCP for my clients, the DHCP server is aware of the client MAC 
addresses and gives them
a well known "reserved" IP/hostname. For clients without reserved 
hostnames, there is  a pool of
addresses that also have DNS records so they get resolvable hostnames 
too. Not a problem.

Yes, DNS may be more work, it may not do everything WINS does/did, 
however it has a future
even with Windoze. The time and effort spent to get it working is worth 
it in my opinion especially
when there are people like those on this mailing list who are more than 
willing to help each other out.

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