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ejholmes
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 Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:41 am Post subject: DNS and NIS and WINS and OH MY! |
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Hey guys,
I've run into a little dilema here. I have a very small home network consisting of two laptops, 3 desktops and eventually one server (maybe 6 months to a year from now). My problem is that I don't know what I should use for the LAN hostname resolution. Two of the desktops are pure windows, one is a gentoo/windows and one of the laptops is pure gentoo. Samba is running on all the Gentoo PC's and the Windows PC can see those machines perfectly fine which means that NetBIOS must be working. Preferably that is what i'd like to use: NetBIOS, but the gentoo systems don't seem to be able to talk to each other using NetBIOS names, they just end up saying "unknown host". So I don't know what to do. If I had that server I guess i could run DNS on it but wouldn't that require me to enter in the ip adress of each machine manually? I just want the most convenient hostname resolver which seems like WINS at the moment if I can get it to work on all the machines. So, what should i do? I need some expert opinions 
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ejholmes
Tux's lil' helper
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:59 am Post subject: |
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Well, it looks like i solved it. I'm using WINS now on all machines. Here's the dump of testparm from one of the gentoo systems.
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[global]
workgroup = HOME
server string = Eric_on_Linux
map to guest = Bad User
log file = /var/log/samba3/log.%m
max log size = 50
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
wins server = 192.168.0.12
printer admin = @adm
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and here's what /etc/nsswitch.conf looks like...
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# /etc/nsswitch.conf:
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/nsswitch.conf,v 1.4 2002/11/18 19:39:22 azarah Exp $
passwd: compat
shadow: compat
group: compat
# passwd: db files nis
# shadow: db files nis
# group: db files nis
hosts: files dns wins
networks: files dns
services: db files
protocols: db files
rpc: db files
ethers: db files
netmasks: files
netgroup: files
bootparams: files
automount: files
aliases: files
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Please post anything about DNS if you can, I'd still like to know the benefits of using DNS over WINS for LAN if there are any. And also, if you notice, I have the WINS server set to one of the Windows machines. Is there a way to set it dynamically so that if 192.168.0.12 went down I wouldn't lose WINS?
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Athlon XP 3200+
768 mb
nVidia GeForce 4 mx
Server-----
Athlon Sempron 1.5 GHz
128 mb ram
$200 from walmart |
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