Greetings, I must have missed something here; I have configured 180 ip's available via DHCP and created 180 DNS records. Like this: station10 IN A 192.168.2.10 station11 IN A 192.168.2.11 station12 IN A 192.168.2.12 So when I boot a station it will be asigned an ip-address by dhcp and receive a host name from DNS, But this is only working on the Linux machines. Could someone please tell me why the windows PC's don't get a host name update at all? BIG THANKS Chadley
Chadley Wilson wrote:
Greetings,
I must have missed something here;
I have configured 180 ip's available via DHCP and created 180 DNS records. Like this:
station10 IN A 192.168.2.10 station11 IN A 192.168.2.11 station12 IN A 192.168.2.12
So when I boot a station it will be asigned an ip-address by dhcp and receive a host name from DNS,
But this is only working on the Linux machines.
Could someone please tell me why the windows PC's don't get a host name update at all?
To me it is not clear if your windows machines don't get an IP number asigned or if they can not resolve host names or both. Ulf
On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 11:18 +0100, Ulf Rasch wrote:
Chadley Wilson wrote:
Greetings,
I must have missed something here;
I have configured 180 ip's available via DHCP and created 180 DNS records. Like this:
station10 IN A 192.168.2.10 station11 IN A 192.168.2.11 station12 IN A 192.168.2.12
So when I boot a station it will be asigned an ip-address by dhcp and receive a host name from DNS,
But this is only working on the Linux machines.
Could someone please tell me why the windows PC's don't get a host name update at all?
To me it is not clear if your windows machines don't get an IP number asigned or if they can not resolve host names or both.
Ulf
The windows machines do get an IP but the host name stays whatever it was when it was setup.
The windows machines do get an IP but the host name stays whatever it was when it was setup.
Do you provide with the dhcp server a dns server? Where do you configure the host name of a windows machine? I thought you can only configure the netbios name. THat one will not change and is of course something else than the host name of a linux box. I have dhcp server (suse 9.3) provide to windows clients their network config. Their setup is to to get everything automatic. (ip, mask, gateway, WINS, DNS server). They basicly get only an ip number. Through DNS they can lookup their hostname. Given that you configured reverse lookup at your DNS server. Check on your windows client if they can resolve stationXX into an ip number. If that works, you are set. Ulf
On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 11:57 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote:
Greetings,
I must have missed something here;
I have configured 180 ip's available via DHCP and created 180 DNS records. Like this:
station10 IN A 192.168.2.10 station11 IN A 192.168.2.11 station12 IN A 192.168.2.12
So when I boot a station it will be asigned an ip-address by dhcp and receive a host name from DNS,
But this is only working on the Linux machines.
Could someone please tell me why the windows PC's don't get a host name update at all?
We all know that MS has it's own way of doing things (standards), even if they are not the correct way. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
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