[Samba] Registering Samba server in a MS DNS

simo idra at samba.org
Tue Jul 11 23:18:54 GMT 2006


On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 09:13 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 12:01 -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> > Henrik Zagerholm wrote:
> > > Hi list,
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this 
> > > question but I guess someone has probably don this before.
> > > 
> > > I wonder how I can easily register my samba box's in 
> > > my Windows DNS?
> > >
> > > It is quite easy to register with WINS but how do 
> > > I register it to the DNS?
> > 
> > One of our devs at Centeris has code for performing
> > secure, dynamic DNS registration during domain join
> > that will be going into Samba 3.0.24.  I'm currently
> > working on integrating it into the SAMBA_3_0 tree.
> 
> Doesn't it need to be in the DHCP scripts, rather than the join, to
> ensure it's done right?

Usually servers have a fixed IP address, they don't use DHCP.

Simo.

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