[Samba] name resolves to public address - should resolve to private...

[Chris Smith]

On Friday 09 May 2008, Joe Demeny wrote:
> I see... let me ask, just to make it clear for myself: Is there any
> knob in Samba which could tell the Windows workstations "look at WINS
> first, look at my /etc/hosts second, then ask the DNS resolver"?

Not really outside of changes you may make with a logon script. And even 
though Samba can provide WINS it doesn't tell the client to use it - 
that's a client side configuration issue. Normally DHCP is used to set 
all of this up. Generally "hosts" (think of this as a local static DNS) 
and "lmhosts" (think of this as a local static WINS) will be looked at 
before DNS and WINS (some differences depending upon Windows version). 
With the lmhosts file you can use the #PRE directive to preload the 
data so the file itself doesn't have to be referenced after boot. And 
besides the normal configuration options one may be able to effect the 
order with registry changes although generally there should be no need 
to.

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Chris