New Microsoft Knowledgebase article

[Larry McElderry]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: samba-ntdom at samba.org [mailto:samba-ntdom at samba.org]On Behalf Of
>David M. Davisson
>Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 11:11 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
>Subject: Re: New Microsoft Knowledgebase article
>
>
>Larry McElderry wrote:
>>
>> David:
>>
>> Gald you mentioned that,  it's always been a bit of mystery to
>me.  I know
>> what a DNS name is,  but what exactly is a netbios name?  Where
>is it used?
>>
>> Larry
>
>Simply put, the netbios name is the name you give the computer in
>networking properties on Windows clients or servers.  The DNS name is
>the host name and domain name that you put in the DNS networking
>properties.  The host name and netbios name could (M$ says should) be
>the same.  The netbios domain name is the name of the domain that you
>you and logon to.  The DNS domain name is the same as your registered
>DNS domain name on ther internet.  So the confusion could be like this:
>
>Host Name: PENTIUM
>NT (netbios) domain name: COMPANY
>DNS domain name: company.com
>
>In the network neighborhood you would see the computer Pentium.  In your
>sendmail logs, the host would be recorded as pentium.company.com.
>
>As I said, simply put.  There is a lot more to this issue.  There are a
>couple of good docs in the Samba docs on this, and there is a brief and
>excellent explanation of netbios netowrking in the "Learn Samba in 24
>Hours" book.  I haven't read "Using Samba" yet, but I am sure there is a
>good explanation there too.  Once you understand how DNS and netbios
>interact and work together, the source of a lot of those nagging little
>network miseries becomes apparent.
>
>--
>David M. Davisson
>davisson at pfp.net
>
OK.  That's what I thought it was.  I guess it's never been an issue since I
always use the same name for each (things can confusing enough without
having multiple names for 1 machine).  Personally,  I also like the machine
name to match the user's (login) name.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Larry