On Mon April 20 2009 02:46 pm, Easgs wrote:
>
> 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)
>
> in the swerna site says
>
>> 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.
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