[Wylug-help] Fwd: newbie - web & mail & dns svr

[Stephen Patterson]

On 29 Mar 06, Shaun Laughey (shaun at laughey.com) wrote:
> I assume you are running some windows machines that are using Netbios
> name resolution - if you are trying to ping IP addresses and they aren't
> responding then it's likely a switch/netmask/firewall problem. If you
> want to use Netbios names then use Samba to act as a master browser
> there is information in the Samba configuration file on how to do it.

Alternatively, if the windows boxen receive IP addresses from DHCP you could
use dhcp3-server & bind 9. These can be configured so that when the dhcp 
server receives a hostname (windows normally sends this as part of the request)
then your dhcp server can update bind (dns) with that computer's IP & declared
hostname.

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