Samba and DHCP

[Will Kim]

I experienced something similar once, and I *believe* that you might need a
PDC (or at least some sort of DC) in each subnet to get resolution via
hostname (or, more exactly, "windows machine name"). I forget why this needs
to be done however.
 
One temporary solution is to access the boxes via IP address instead of
hostname... So instead of accessing  \\mybox <file://\\mybox>  , you would
access \\10.0.0.1 <file://\\10.0.0.1>  (assuming that was the IP for the
machine called "mybox").
 
Cheers,
Will

-----Original Message-----
From: Sanborn, Ed [mailto:ed.sanborn at alcatel.com]
Sent: May 31, 2000 10:12 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA
Subject: Samba and DHCP


Hi folks,
 
  I recently changed an NT client from a static IP address to
a DHCP address in a new subnet.  Now I cannot reach all
3 Samba servers that I have.  Any idea why?  
 
One clue I have is that the machine is now not visible via
DNS as it has been fed a dynamic address.  Do I need to
use Dynamic DNS for this to work?
 
-Ed

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Manager of Computing Infrastructure, NAR
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