Subject: Re: DHCP and Samba w/ etc/hosts
From: James McMorris (buddha@gci.net)
Date: Sun May 05 2002 - 15:16:47 AKDT
My $.02 on Samba that I learned at the Feb AKLUG meeting:
-Using Webmin, set Samba's "master browser priority" to 255 so it
always wins the master browser election.
SSL on: https://192.168.1.1:10000/samba/conf_smb.cgi
SSL off: http://192.168.1.1:10000/samba/conf_smb.cgi
-Every Win98 (Win95 too?) is set to be a master browser by default.
Reconfigure each box to disable this so there's less "fighting". I
think it's under TCP/IP --> Advanced.
>Anyway, can someone point me to a concise little solution somewhere
>that can get me started?
DHCP mini-HOWTO: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/DHCP/
A SAMBA HOWTO: http://www.skippy.net/linux/smb-howto.html
SAMBA Docs: http://us6.samba.org/samba/docs/
-Buddha
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Dory <jdory@gci.net>
Date: Sunday, May 5, 2002 2:33 pm
Subject: DHCP and Samba w/ etc/hosts
>
> Hope you don't mind another newbie question:
>
> I've spent the weekend trying to learn Linux and networking. (If
> you
> want to learn Linux, give yourself a task.) My task is trying to
> get a
> Windows network (mostly Win2000 and win98 but one or two W95) to
> use a
> Linux server (cobalt raq) to share files, backup files, etc. and
> to
> provide internet access via maybe a cable modem. Lan would be
> about 20
> desktops and Wan would be total of 50 or less.
>
> I've been researching groups.google.com and there's lots of
> opinions and
> many are over my head or apply to different scenerios so thought I
> would
> throw this out to the LUG. I am kind of in a hurry to get this
> working
> so I don't have a lot more time to reseach - at least immediately.
>
> Seems there's a couple schools of thoughts.. a script that
> rewrites the
> etc/hosts file to update the dynamic IP addresses- some very short
> and
> sweet others very long and complex-, and another where you add the
> whole
> pool range with some kind of generic host names which I didn't
> understand obviously. Another guy was saying that if DNS is
> working your
> etc/resolv.conf handles it. I've got DNS working but not sure how
> well.
> (like I said.. newbie).
>
> On the server I did get dhcpd installed and working.
>
> I've been telnetting to the linux box via my windows PC. I can see
> the
> domain name under Network Neighborhood (Windows Explorer) but get
> an
> error message host unknown or similar when clicked upon. Doesn't
> show
> the host name, just the domain so maybe something's wrong there. I
> can
> ftp to the linux box using its host name rather than ip address.
> (I'll
> try and get everything good and secure when I get it working
> properly.)
> Anyway, can someone point me to a concise little solution
> somewhere that
> can get me started? I'm sure whatever it is, it might generate
> questions
> so hope you don't mind..
>
> By the way, this is forcing me to learn a few commands. I'm pretty
> much
> using the command line but do have Webmin installed.
>
> Cheers, JD
>
>
>
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