[Samba] Name resolution problems

[Joel Hammer]

Oi, that's a lot of PC's.
I always learn by experimenting, not hard on a small home network.

This sounds like a professional question.

Are you in charge of this network?

What solution works will depend on how other machines on your network
are configured. For example, is there a wins server on your network? If
so, that might be able to take care of things for you, if it is working
properly. If there is no other wins server on your network, maybe setting
up a wins server on your samba box might do it. Setting up a linux box
as a wins server is simple in theory. But, it may be hard depending on
your network.

Are the other machines configured to use a DNS ? If so, maybe just add
your linux server to the DNS. If there is no DNS and you have to set one up,
I really don't know how to set up such a big system without doing an awful
lot of work. (Amateur talk here.)

If a wins server doesn't work, and, there is no DNS server already in
operation, I would be afraid to offer any other advice on a network
this big. I would imagine though, for a system this big, a DNS would be the
way to go.

Better repost your question back to the main group.

Joel


On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 10:16:29PM -0300, PsYLinuX wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My problem to use lmhosts is:  My network has 650 machines on it.
> I'm using such IPs 10.100.68.0/24, 10.100.69.0/24, 10.100.70.0/24,
> 10.100.71.0/24, 10.100.100.0/24 and 10.1.80.0/24
> I'm running DHCP already on my LINUX box.
> 
> So, what's your advise?
> Do I have to use, BIND, DNS anything else, or just SAMBA?
> 
> 
>  --
>  --
> 
> 
> Intel +
> 
> 
> PsYLinuX
> Marcos Azevedo
> 
> I have not failed 10,000 times, I have successfully  found 10,000 ways that
> won't work." -- Thomas A. Edison
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Hammer" <Joel at HammersHome.com>
> To: "PsYLinuX" <nikonlinux at hotmail.com>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 6:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Name resolution problems
> 
> 
> > 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!!!
> > >
> > >  --
> > >  --
> > >
> > >
> > > Intel +
> > >
> > >
> > > PsYLinuX
> > > Marcos Azevedo
> > >
> > > I have not failed 10,000 times, I have sucessfully found 10,000 ways
> that won't work." -- Thomas A. Edison
> >
>