Windows 98 + domain logons
Gerald Carter
gcarter at valinux.com
Wed Nov 29 15:02:57 GMT 2000
Svein Roar Nilsen wrote:
>
> Am I doing something wrong by not registering our
> workstations with a DNS?
No. You are fine. You just become a little more dependent
on NetBIOS name resolution.
> When our PC's are configured via DHCP to use our caching
> only DNS, will they start looking up machines on our
> local network using DNS and forget everything about
> WINS and broadcast?
depends entirely on how you configure your PC's. Are
you assigning the IP address of your WINS server via DHCP
as well?
> became really anoying at about the same time as we
> got our internet connection and the PC's were configured
> to use a DNS...
At that time, did you change /etc/resolv.conf on the
Samba server?
Cheers, jerry
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