[Samba] Keeping samba off the internet

[John Drescher]

On 8/5/07, John G Walker <johngwalker at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I've discovered that, on my SuSE 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 PCs, samba
> accesses my DNS servers on internet to resolve the ip address before
> looking locally.
>
> This has proved no problem for me until my ISP decided to change the
> way it handled DNS "errors" (ie it stopped telling us customers when a
> lookup failed). Now samba doesn't work on my LAN unless I explicitly
> give it ip addresses.
>
> I can show this is the case, since samba runs quite happily if I unplug
> my router from the phone line.
>
> I suspect it is not a router problem, since my Windows 98 PC is
> completely unaffected. I've been using this to move files about, but
> it's not a good long-term solution.
>
> I can (and am) altering my scripts to explicitly specify ip addresses,
> but this too only goes so far.
>
> Clearly, I've got samba incorrectly specified somehow. What should I be
> doing to stop it looking in the wrong place for an ip address?
>
>
You can setup your own dns server. This is not a difficult process and it
will speed up your dns resolution for your network. Or you can use the name
resolve order param to set the browse order and put your host names in your
/etc/hosts file.


John