I have a school with a few hundred WinXP Pro systems. They are all on a
Samba domain controlled server for authentication and home directories. It
works great except for some reason some names will not resolve. I am using
IPcop to set hostnames for static systems on the network. IPcop is the DNS
server for the network. If IPcop knows the name and IP of a local system it
will resolve that IP. All the Linux workstations resolve all names correctly
but it seems like Windows will not resolve a hostname unless there is a
Samba server running on it. That is really stupid and what I would expect
from Microsoft but not helpfull at all. I have servers that privoleged staff
need to access from WinXP via Firefox and don't know squat about Windows so
I would like if someone could help me figure out what is wrong with it, all
joking aside.
As you can see below, *server* can be pinged but the *asterisk* server
cannot even though nslookup says it can resolve the IP. WTFIUWT! Both
servers are listed in IPcop. IPcop is at 192.168.0.254, the domain server is
at 192.168.0.1 and the VoIP server is at 192.168.0.253. A special user has a
static IP with a system called mobius running Ubuntu and Samba, it is also
listed in IPcop and can be pinged by name, it is not a domain server just a
simple file share. I looks like Windoze can only resolve LAN names if the
system is running Samba. Do I need to setup the domain server to resolve LAN
names over Samba protocol?
C:\Documents and Settings\user>*ping server*
Pinging server [192.168.0.1] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Ping statistics for 192.168.0.1:
Packets: Sent = 2, Received = 2, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
C:\Documents and Settings\user>*ping asterisk*
Ping request *could not find host asterisk*. Please check the name and try
again.
C:\Documents and Settings\user>*nslookup asterisk*
Server: ipcop.localdomain
Address: 192.168.0.254
Name: asterisk
Address: *192.168.0.253*
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