Re: [Sheflug] DNS

[Seb James <seb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 20:47, James Mears wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I hope somebody can help.
> 
> At work we run a mainly MS shop but I have introduced a couple of Linux 
> "test & development" machines. I have got them connected to the network 
> getting a DHCP address and I have set unique hostnames on the machines. 
> What I need help with is getting Linux to auto register to the Windows 
> DNS server.
> 
> We are running Server 2000 /2003 with Active directory.
> 
> Any help with getting the machines to auto register in DNS would be 
> great. I have Googled but not managed to find much.

James, have a look at the Samba Howto collection, which you'll find in
the documentation section of www.samba.org; it's got LOTS of information
about Windows to Linux networking. A useful side effect of reading it
will be actually understanding the various network protocols used by
Windows.

regards,

Seb James

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