mapping dynamic ipaddress to users in hosts file

[Dan Egli]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Christine Alfano wrote:

> I'm a newbie and have a question re: the setup to Samba.  Within the hosts
> file, the documentation shows hosts names mapped to their ip addresses.
> We're a small company and currently our IP addresses are given out
> dynamically using dhcpd.  In order to continue with the set up and having it
> work properly, do our ip addresses need to be static, or can this easily be
> worked around?  I just need to verify that the allocation of ip address
> won't interfere in getting samba to work.
> 
> Your help is appreciated.
> Thank you.
> Christine
> 
> 
> 
It HELPS to be static, but it's not required. The SERVER needs to be
static, but thats it. 

For example, here at work, we have 2 samba servers we call subgate and
supergate (don't ask!). Our intra office network is also DHCP. And each
user connects to the samba servers fine. Each of subgate and supergate
has a static IP. Then the rest is taken care of by netbios resolutions.