Apologies if this is off-topic and if you could point me to the right place to ask this questions, I would greatly appreciate it. I have just taken over our department's system where we have a couple of UNIX servers running samba to share user home directories on NT clients. My system admin is trying to upgrade to WINS server and had trouble with my UNIX server host name that have "-" in between and the instruction is to change the hostname to conform. Changing the server's host name will require all clients to be updated, quite a tedious task. In addition to the relationship of sharing home directories, the UNIX servers are running PTC's pdm databases and the NT clients (all having static IP address) are running the pdm client and the UNIX server is looking the DNS server for name resolution. The implementation of WINS should not come into play with regards to my current working environment. I'm comtemplating with the option of requesting them to simply using the lmhost file to reference the machines in my department. Am I looking at the right direction, is there any pitfall I should be aware of? Thanks for any input. Regards Nic
It would seem that asking them to use the LMHOSTS file will require them to perform the tedious task of updating all of their clients instead of you having to update all of yours. In what way would WINS be an upgrade over DNS, when hosts have static IP's? -----Original Message----- From: samba-admin@us5.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin@us5.samba.org]On Behalf Of Nicholas Chua Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 19:05 To: samba@us5.samba.org Subject: WINS/LMHOST Apologies if this is off-topic and if you could point me to the right place to ask this questions, I would greatly appreciate it. I have just taken over our department's system where we have a couple of UNIX servers running samba to share user home directories on NT clients. My system admin is trying to upgrade to WINS server and had trouble with my UNIX server host name that have "-" in between and the instruction is to change the hostname to conform. Changing the server's host name will require all clients to be updated, quite a tedious task. In addition to the relationship of sharing home directories, the UNIX servers are running PTC's pdm databases and the NT clients (all having static IP address) are running the pdm client and the UNIX server is looking the DNS server for name resolution. The implementation of WINS should not come into play with regards to my current working environment. I'm comtemplating with the option of requesting them to simply using the lmhost file to reference the machines in my department. Am I looking at the right direction, is there any pitfall I should be aware of? Thanks for any input. Regards Nic -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
I have a samba server with a dash in its name (big-red) running on a network with an NT4 PDC. Initially big-red was not showing up in browse lists. By adding a DNS entry for him (or is a computer a her) everything was fixed. I would say DNS is the way to go. Windows 2000 is headed in that direction as well. John Supplee _____ John R. Supplee Programming Manager Re:discovery Software, Inc. <http://www.rediscov.com> Charlottesville, VA USA -----Original Message----- From: samba-admin@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin@lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Nicholas Chua Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 10:05 PM To: samba@us5.samba.org Subject: WINS/LMHOST Apologies if this is off-topic and if you could point me to the right place to ask this questions, I would greatly appreciate it. I have just taken over our department's system where we have a couple of UNIX servers running samba to share user home directories on NT clients. My system admin is trying to upgrade to WINS server and had trouble with my UNIX server host name that have "-" in between and the instruction is to change the hostname to conform. Changing the server's host name will require all clients to be updated, quite a tedious task. In addition to the relationship of sharing home directories, the UNIX servers are running PTC's pdm databases and the NT clients (all having static IP address) are running the pdm client and the UNIX server is looking the DNS server for name resolution. The implementation of WINS should not come into play with regards to my current working environment. I'm comtemplating with the option of requesting them to simply using the lmhost file to reference the machines in my department. Am I looking at the right direction, is there any pitfall I should be aware of? Thanks for any input. Regards Nic -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba