On Wednesday 16 April 2008 08:37:06 Tim wrote: > Tim: > >> I found it easier to configure Samba to use normal DNS style > >> resolution, rather than have yet another file to configure (the > >> lmhosts file). > > Anne Wilson: > > What exactly do you mean by 'normal DNS style'? > > On Linux, just about all networking things (e.g. mail, remote access to > a shell, X display, etc.), usually makes use of the Domain Name System > to resolve names and addresses. It can do that by making use of a local > hosts file, or a DNS server. > > Since you've already got that system in place (or probably should do), > it makes little sense to have to manage yet another separate thing that > does almost the same thing, especially if you have things which will get > different addresses from time to time. If you have working DNS, then > all other services should really "just work". > > The origins of SMB predates the common use of TCP/IP and DNS in a LAN, > hence why it has other methods, and used to (if it doesn't still) > default to using other techniques. For Samba, you'd change the order of > things it uses to try and resolve names, to put DNS ahead of other > techniques. > > There's a similar set of circumstances for Linux networking, if you look > at the nsswitch.conf file, you can change how your box resolves names. > The usual default is to first try the hosts file, then do a DNS lookup, > and there's other options, as well. > OK. I never used the lmhosts file before this incarnation. It was configured while I was still trying to find out why samba just would not work for me this time round. It's probably being ignored anyway. Thanks for answering. Anne
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