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[Richard Sharpe]

At 12:15 PM 10/27/00 +0930, Matthew Geddes wrote:
>John Doe wrote:
>> 
>> How do i set up a Samba 2.7 server to recieve an IP from a DHCP server?
>
>The same way you get any unix machine to use DHCP. Install and configure
>a DHCP client on the machine. Samba has nothing to do with IP
>configuration of your Unix box at all. If you use DHCP, you will want to
>use a WINS server as well.

Ummm, that last statement is not, strictly speaking, true :-)

You really only need to WINS if you are running Windows and Samba across a
multi-subnet network ...

>Matt
>
>-- 
>
>Matthew Geddes
>Network Manager
>Xavier College
>Gawler, SA


Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author, Special Edition, Using Samba