DNS/netbios WAS: Re: New Microsoft Knowledgebase article

[Michael Glauche]

"David M. Davisson" wrote:

> 
> 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.

Btw .. while we are at this topic :
are there some scripts that take the netbios name from a dhcpd.leases
file and genereate some bind config files (some A, and IN PTR records
..) ?
(in order to keep the DNS and netbios names in sync ...)

TIA,
  Michael

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