On 12/13/2010 7:29 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
Dynamic IP addresses on their network, and registration of this in the company-wide DNS (and NETBIOS), and a few other things I don't know about I am sure. I doubt they would give us a pool of dynamic addresses for the Windows machines. But this sort of solution is the one I will most likely persue if the server cannot be configured correctly.
I'd point out that Microsoft has a large number of papers on Linux/Windows working together, all the way up to implementing the Windows AD using a Linus MySql-backed Linux based LDAP server; and of course the LDAP server and the database can be mirrored :-)
We have no interest in setting up an AD server for this. But we do have our Linux machines on the company's AD.
I know of some firms that have implemented their Windows file servers on "Big Iron" *NIX like HP-500s with SAMBA for reliability and performance. You don't have to suck from the Windows-Server teat in order to run Windows desktop.
The locals just replaced the Novell file servers with MS file servers. No accounting for taste.
Ok, so turning the question around, why do you need your own DHCP server on Linux. Just use theirs. I've never met a windows box that cared where its IP came from. Or a linux one either. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org