samba - Dec 2004 - TIP: Correct DHCP settings for joining XP to domains.

Hi, I've seen this one a few times and I thought I'd document it for
other
people. It should be on anybodys checklist when setting up a Samba domain
controller.

The problem is that newish XP clients use TCP/IP to find the sambaserver, but
this will not happen you haven't set up the DNS server to get updated. To
solve
this problem you can either: a) Get a working DNS (which might be a hassle) or
b) run a winssserver with the samba server (wins server = yes in smb.conf) and
make sure that the dhcpserver points the XP-server to these entries.

For reference I've included sample settings for dnsmasq and dhcpd. Change
the
ipadress to the adress of your samba-server.

Dnsmasq entries:
dhcp-option=44,192.168.1.1     # set netbios-over-TCP/IP nameserver(s) aka WINS
server(s)
dhcp-option=45,192.168.1.1     # netbios datagram distribution server
dhcp-option=46,8           # netbios node type
dhcp-option=47             # empty netbios scope.

Dhcpd:
option ntp-servers 192.168.1.1;
option netbios-name-servers 192.168.1.1;
option netbios-node-type 8;

I hope this helps someone.
Tarjei