[Samba] Name resolution problems

Joel Hammer Joel at HammersHome.com
Wed Jul 3 14:11:02 GMT 2002


This shouldnb't be any problem. I don't know about PDC's but a wins
server is simple with samba. Invoke the proper parameters in your global
section and you should be ok.

Read about wins in smb.conf. (It says not to use wins support unless you
have a multisubnet network, but, I don't understand that.) Do you really
need a wins server? Would just broadcasting for netbios names do it?

There are a lot of ways to do name resolution, BTW. You could just put
all the names into lmhosts files, if you wanted to and didn't have a
big network. Whatever works.

Joel
 
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 05:22:21PM -0300, PsYLinuX wrote:
> Hi, everybody
> 
> I've just got this problem. On my network I have one SQL Server DATABASE running in my NT Server. This is not a PDC, just a SQL Server. 
> I'm trying to set up a Domain Control using SAMBA server which is runnig in my Linux RH 7.3 BOX. So the problem is:
> 
> I need to use name resolution, like WINS. Because my windowdos 98 clients find the DATABASE server by name, as well as another machines on my network.
> 
> How can it be done, using just LINUX ???
> 
> Do I need to use any another application as DNS or BIND, or just SAMBA can solve my problem???
> 
> Thanks a lot!!!
> 
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> Intel +
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> 
> PsYLinuX
> Marcos Azevedo
> 
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