Re: Samba and Pump

1999-11-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Chris Abbey wrote: > > At 17:38 11/8/99 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >The problem is that for DHCP, the configuration can change *at any > >time*. Unlike BOOTP, where you get a configuration at one point and > >that's it, with DHCP you need to be able to change at runtime. > > Right, I unders

Re: Samba and Pump

1999-11-08 Thread Chris Abbey
At 17:38 11/8/99 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >The problem is that for DHCP, the configuration can change *at any >time*. Unlike BOOTP, where you get a configuration at one point and >that's it, with DHCP you need to be able to change at runtime. Right, I understand DHCP... actually it can't be

Re: Samba and Pump

1999-11-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Chris Abbey wrote: > > At 15:05 11/8/99 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >This is true, and that's a valid request. Service information exported > >via DHCP needs to get around. > > > >However, something we should think about would be if there is a better > >way to do this than having pump edit N

Re: Samba and Pump

1999-11-08 Thread Chris Abbey
At 15:05 11/8/99 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >This is true, and that's a valid request. Service information exported >via DHCP needs to get around. > >However, something we should think about would be if there is a better >way to do this than having pump edit N different random files in the >sys

Re: Samba and Pump

1999-11-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
JF Martinez wrote: > > > > Isn't this something that should get fixed in Samba, rather than pump? > > > > Yes. But I still would like pump making for Wins servers what it does > about DNS servers: find them and put the right value in the right > place. This is DHCP, or Pump work not Samba's >

Re: Samba and Pump

1999-11-08 Thread JF Martinez
> > > > This is a message for all those people who replied that setting > > interfaces was not necessary. In fact it is neccessary when you use a > > Wins server: it seems Samba needs to send its IP address in order to > > register with the wins server and that for some reason it will not send >

Re: Samba and Pump

1999-11-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
JF Martinez wrote: > > > > > > > Pump does a magnificent job for people who have to set their > > networking interfaces throughg DHCP. And it works on Token Rings > > despite what the doc says about not sure it works on it. > > > > Now Samba does not work if I don't add the interfaces=myipnumber

Re: Samba and Pump

1999-11-08 Thread JF Martinez
> > > Pump does a magnificent job for people who have to set their > networking interfaces throughg DHCP. And it works on Token Rings > despite what the doc says about not sure it works on it. > > Now Samba does not work if I don't add the interfaces=myipnumber/mask > parm in the smb.conf and

Re: Samba and Pump

1999-11-06 Thread rsteffen
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, John Summerfield wrote: > > So for next version it would be real nice if pump was able to handle > > Samba files (possibly through include files) or at the very least > > allowed retrieval of the info about interfaces and WINS servers in > > order for an external program being

Re: Samba and Pump

1999-01-02 Thread John Summerfield
> > > Pump does a magnificent job for people who have to set their > networking interfaces throughg DHCP. And it works on Token Rings > despite what the doc says about not sure it works on it. > > Now Samba does not work if I don't add the interfaces=myipnumber/mask > parm in the smb.conf and