Greetings, I'm teaching in a mission school in Niger and I've inherited an LAN of 12 of win98/win2k machines, in a network with a win2k server taking the DNS, DHCP and log on chores and some file serving. To this mix I would like to add a couple of linux machines to serve web pages and perhaps do some modem sharing between some of the win machines. By doing this, I will also be exposing some sixty students to Linux and the rest of the staff and administration of the school as well.
Having only used linux on a peer to peer networking situations I need some guidence as to how to get the Linux box to get DNS and DHCP services from the win2k server. The machine in questions will be 75-100MHz Pentiums with 32-48 MB Ram.........no X GUI Specifically I need to know: 1 >> What things (/etc files? config files?) do I need to change to get the IP address for the linux boxes from the win2k server? Is there some client I need to have running? 2>> How do I get the DNS information automatically from the win2k server instead of having to put it in /etc/hosts? 3>> When this is done, will logging on to the linux box also give me access to my network resources on the win2k server? (assuming a working samba config) Thanks to any who can help. Obviously linux support here is limited, so I'm grateful for any guidence. Randal Potratz SIM Niger
