AFAIK, All you need to do is start pump or dhcpcd, and they should configure the rest. :)
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 11:46, R R Potratz wrote: > 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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
