-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 What is fully qualified domain name? I believe that the short names resolve via netbios which usually are pulled from the systems hostname (though netbios names can be different).
ipconfig should list the domain suffix, which would be of interest. I would try "ping server.domain.suffix). In your IPCOP box you should specify the hosts as <hostname>.<domain> If you do not have a domain name, then <arbitrary name>.local is a good convention to use. In ipcop, under the DHCP options, set the Domain name suffix (mydomain.local is OK). In the "Edit Hosts" part, set the optional parameter "Domain name" to be the same. If you release and renew the IPs from the Windows boxes their domain suffix should now be whatever you put in the dhcp options. Ping server.domain.local should work, and maybe even server (windows *should* automatically append the domain suffux in the background, which is how this normally works. Then if it fails it falls back to netbios broadcasts). Hope this helps. Personally, I run a full version of bind (or djbdns et al.), but this may be overkill. Royce Souther wrote: > 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 > <http://192.168.0.254>, the domain server is at 192.168.0.1 > <http://192.168.0.1> and the VoIP server is at 192.168.0.253 > <http://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 <http://192.168.0.1>] with 32 bytes of data: > > Reply from 192.168.0.1 <http://192.168.0.1>: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 > Reply from 192.168.0.1 <http://192.168.0.1>: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 > > Ping statistics for 192.168.0.1 <http://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 <http://192.168.0.254> > > Name: asterisk > Address: *192.168.0.253 <http://192.168.0.253>* > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFI0B5WwRXgH3rKGfMRAp4wAJYt05SkPwg/E0rBDowQozs4r6NFAJ9e5rbS csW+3I6h265pykmOGdI1vw== =eA4D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
