-----Original Message----- From: Brad Bourn [mailto:brad@summitrd.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 12:04 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Samba and DNS setup with SuSE Pro 9.1
Don't know if it helps but.......
I believe only the newer domain (with active directory) require DNS.
The old domain (< NT4) doesn't as far as I know.
B-)
Brad - thank you. That makes sense. I'm still considering using LDAP, if the configuration does not end up being too difficult - otherwise fall back to a simpler authentication scheme. I guess I'll send a new post and try to get some insight as to how DNS and DHCP interact :)
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 12:45 pm, Richard Mixon (qwest) wrote:
I am trying to setup a Samba as a primary domain controller using 9.1. There are five servers and five clients on the network. The servers are all Linux, the clients are mostly Windows 2K and XP.
I need a little guidance at this point on how to proceed. I can mount shares using the IP address "net use * \\192.168.1.34\SomeShare" works just fine. But I cannot join the domain.
From my reading and the error messages so far, I realize that I have to setup DNS also. OK, but in reading the DNS info in talks about setting up zone files where I hardcode the IP addresses for each hostname on the network. That seems to defeat the purpose of DHCP though. I'm currently using a Linksys firewall as a DHCP server for my Windows clients. Do I have to disable DHCP to get this working correctly?
Also, for such a small LAN, using LDAP for user management would be overkill - right? I can just create an account for each LAN user on the PDC?
Thanks in advance - Richard
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