samba - Feb 2007 - Registering hostnames with an AD server?

It seems like most people here are asking pretty advanced questions, and
I don't think this is one--but I've read a lot of documentation and I
can't come up with an answer.

We have a 100% Windows-based IT infrastructure here, including using AD
to manage hostname mapping.  I know hardly anything about Windows, since
I've been a UNIX person for 20+ years and I've been overwriting any
Windows installation with Linux for a lot of those years.

Our IT folks say that they don't add hostnames directly to AD, like you
would with BIND or similar; instead (they say) the desktop owner sets
the hostname in some Windows system dialog, and that hostname is then
forwarded to the AD server (I assume), which makes it available through
DNS for non-Windows systems.  This does appear to work: I can ping, etc.
to peoples' Windows desktops.

So now I want to add my Linux desktop and have the same hostname setting
happen... but I can't figure out how to get it to work.  Most of the
docs I see are all about configuring Samba servers, but I don't have or
want a Samba server; I need my Linux client to talk to a Windows server.
The howto's that talk about Linux as a Windows client discuss mounting
SMB shares (which I have done and works fine) and/or hooking up
password/group/etc. databases to AD (which I don't need to do since our
IT folks have installed Windows for UNIX or whatever, and I get all that
through NIS which works fine).

All I need to do is get my hostname set up properly so other people can
access my system.  Can I do that?  Can someone either tell me how or
point me in the right direction in the docs (which Samba tool would be
used, for example)?

Thanks!

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Paul Smith wrote:
> So now I want to add my Linux desktop and have the 
> same hostname setting happen... but I can't figure out
> how to get it to work.  Most of the
There's new code in the svn tree for secure DNS updates
using the machin trust account password.  'net ads dns register -P'.
It works against Windows 2000SP4 and Windows 2003 DNS servers.
This will be in the next upgrade release.






cheers, jerry
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On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:31:53AM -0500, Paul Smith
wrote:
> So now I want to add my Linux desktop and have the same hostname setting
> happen... but I can't figure out how to get it to work.  Most of the
Right now in the 3_0 tree we have code that will register a
machine's hostname in DNS using kerberos authenticated
dynamic updates. Will be in the next major release.

Volker
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