Samba and DNS, the relation?
Juan Carlos Castro y Castro
jcastro at pcshop.com.br
Mon Mar 15 18:55:06 GMT 1999
Tim Villa - faculties wrote:
>
> > From: "Cary T. Conrad" <conrad at messagesecure.com>
> >
> > We recently experienced "loss of service" with our Internet provider and as
> > a result none of our PC's could log-on to Samba Shares. As soon as the
> > service was restored all was well.
> >
> > Questions:
> > Is DNS necessary to run samba?
> > If not, how should naming be setup?
> > Do all of the clients need forward and reverse entries?
> >
> > I guess what I am asking is there a definitive way to setup naming for
> > local operation?
> > I have the Blair book in front of me now, Hhhhmmmm.........
> >
> In my experience, you need to have your DNS entries set up correctly,
> yes. I have a vague recollection of requiring the client's host name to
> match the DNS host name also.
>
> This is just the way we've got ours set up though, however I believe
> this is also the default.
>
> If you want to get around having these problems in the event of the ISP
> loss of service occurring again, you could consider adding enties to
> your /etc/hosts and making sure that the "hosts" file is used for name
> service lookups in your /etc/nsswitch.conf - or perhaps setting up a
> local DNS independent of your ISP.
In that case, would I have to edit a corresponding file in the Windows
clients too? If so, which one?
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