how will be that name resolve order if you install and setup in the same samba server DNS and DHCP and you want to use the DNS to resolve the names in your network?.
A DNS server resolves fully qualified Internet domain names. The line “name resolve order” specifies how to resolve netBIOS names.
The O’Reilly link talks mostly about wins servers. Wins servers are mostly used for linking netBIOS name resolution across multiple subnets. It’s not necessary to set up a wins server on a LAN with a single subnet (it is still an option; it’s just not necessary).
Will the DNS improve somehow the performance of the LAN network browsing?
I read in a Windows 2000 Server book that MS was discontinuing the use of Wins for DNS, so if you install the active directory you have to install DNS too, so you don`t need wins because you are using DNS, I am a little confuse here.
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> Hi, I have been reading some guides, here ‘HowTo Configure Samba
> openSUSE Windows Network Browsing on a SOHO LAN’
> (http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtosambabrowse.html)
>
> and here
>
> ‘SolutionBase: Configuring a DNS server with SuSE’s YaST’
> (http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6180677.html)
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> in the swerna site says
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>> Name Resolution via a Local Master Browser…
>>
>> name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins
>>
>
> how will be that name resolve order if you install and setup in the
> same samba server DNS and DHCP and you want to use the DNS to resolve
> the names in your network?.
>
> I readed this too ‘Name Resolution and Browsing in Samba, Part 1 |
> O’Reilly Media’ (http://tinyurl.com/5jqchr)
>
> but I am a little confuse.
>
> Thanks
>
>
Easgs;
bcast, host, wins and lmhosts are the only choices for “name resolve order”.
They are tried in the order that is listed. If nmbd is running as a wins
server, then you can add the parameter “dns proxy = yes”
to /etc/samba/smb.conf. In this case if the wins lookup fails nmbd will try
to look up the name in the DNS server. To make nmbd a Wins server add this
to the [global] section of /etc/samba/smb.conf.
wins support = yes
What ever you do NEVER use both the parameters:
“wins support” and “wins server”
You can let DHCP configure the wins server address on clients by adding:
option netbios-name-servers <IP of Wins server>
to /etc/dhcpd.conf.
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P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
I am asking this because I followed the HowTo Configure Samba openSUSE Windows Network Browsing on a SOHO LAN guide, it is working fine I have a stable browsing but if I double clic a Windows pc from the Linux one I says that the resource is not available, this until I register the windows pc in the hosts file.
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> I am asking this because I followed the ‘HowTo Configure Samba openSUSE
> Windows Network Browsing on a SOHO LAN’
> (http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtosambabrowse.html#lmb) guide, it is
> working fine I have a stable browsing but if I double clic a Windows pc
> from the Linux one I says that the resource is not available, this until
> I register the windows pc in the hosts file.
>
>
Easgs;
Is bcast the first entry for “name resolve order”? Are all the machines on
the same subnet? Could your firewall be blocking broadcasts? For testing
try with no firewall. If the machines are on different subnets you should
run a WINS server. Finally what does the hosts entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf
look like?
I have also heard that Microsoft is backing away from WINS in favor of DNS,
but so far WINS and Broadcasts are still the default for NT4 type domains and
workgroups.
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
It was the firewall, I disable it and I was running fine, It seems that the problem was because the NIC was setup as a external zone, I change it to internal and it is working fine now, the question is, what are the security problems of leaving the NIC as internal?, what is the specific service to enable bcast?
ok I think I got it, I added the external zone in broadcasting 192.168.0.0/24 and selected the samba browsing as the service, I will test it at home at night.
there are three text boxes, internal, external and Demilitarized to enable log, these are for the IP of the network? ej 192.168.0.0/24
You should put your NIC in the external zone so your workstation get’s full firewall protection. Then you allow services “sanba server”, “netbios server”. And also the connection tracking module located at Yast → firewall → broadcast → 192…0/24. See the screenshots at this location: APPENDIX: Opening the Firewall for Samba
Everything is working fine now, thanks a lot, I am trying to understand Linux/Windows networking, so I can set up a server as quick as possible in case that I have to format my pc.