Re: 1st time linux setup in win network

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Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 22:18:48 GMT

Thanks very much for your response. I've been out of town for several
weeks and am only now getting back to this.

As I understand your note, the behavior is expected and I should not
worry and be happy, install Samba and all should be well.

Thanks.

On Sun, 02 May 2004 18:56:09 GMT, Minderbinder
<milo_and_minderbinder@hotmail.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 02 May 2004 14:45:16 +0000, Richard Bell wrote:
>
>> I'm installing a Fedora Core 1 based machine into an existing network of
>> Windows machines.
>> ...
>> The existing machines are all
>> connected to a LinkSys Router configured as a DHCP server that, in turn,
>> provides access to the Internet for all the machines.
>> ...
>> From the new
>> Fedora machine, F1, I can access the Internet via Mozilla, ping various
>> Internet sites by name, etc. All seems well relative to the Internet.
>> Unfortunately, from F1, while I'm able to ping the existing Win machines
>> by IP address, I can not ping them by name (get an "unknown host" error
>> message).
>
>Surely the Windows machines are resolving names "the Windows way", ie.
>WINS, as opposed to with DNS... This is generally how Windows resolves
>names on a LAN.
>
>If you need to resolve names "the internet way", for normal IP
>applications, you need to register the names with DNS - this would
>probably require running your own name server. This is the traditional
>UNIX way of resolving names to IP addresses.
>
>If you only need to resolve names to access Windows file shares via SaMBa,
>you probably don't need to do anything special. SaMBa usually has no
>problem resolving WINS names on the LAN in its default configuration.
>
>Making linux resolve names to IP addresses more generally might be more
>difficult. Probably your best option is to run your own DNS server, and
>make sure that names are registered in DNS when DHCP leases are handed
>out. OR: you may be able to make your DNS server do WINS lookups.
>
>Try reading this related link:
>http://www.ale.org/archive/ale/ale-2000-11/msg00160.html
>
>If that seems like overkill for one linux box, you may be able to resolve
>WINS names on just the one machine by using nmbd (a SaMBa component) as a
>WINS proxy for transparent resolution. You'll have to research this
>yourself (try samba.org), but it seems possible according to the nmdb man
>page:
>
> In addition, nmbd can act as a WINS proxy, relaying broad- cast
> queries from clients that do not understand how to talk the WINS
> protocol to a WIN server.
>
>Cheers,
>Minderbinder.

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