Name resolution in a Windows environment

[Carl Parrish]

Okay now after getting some sleep I'm thinking perhaps I'm not
connecting to their proxy server correctly (I know this could effect my
browser but would it effect my networking? ping etc...?). What should I
look at to see if my proxy settings are correct. Bringing up netconfig
didn't have a proxy option so I'd rather look at the config files. 

Carl P. 

On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 19:02, Adrian Mink wrote:
> To see if they have a real dns server or not you can run winipcfg on a
> win95/98 box.
> If they have one you will find the listing there. On windows 2000 you can
> run
> ipconfig /all from a command prompt to get the same info. If there is one
> listed
> (An internal one that is) you can put that in /etc/resolv.conf.
> 
> Adrian
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Mike
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 6:34 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Re: Name resolution in a Windows enviornment
> 
> 
> I believe you just need the proper settings in smb.conf.
> 
> 1.Make sure you put in the ip of the wins server in smb.conf
> 2. Set the order to be wins first in smb.conf
> 3. restart samba and you should be good to go.
> 
> v/r
> mike
> 
> On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 06:24:13PM -0700, Matt Alexander wrote:
>  You can ping them, but you'll have to put them in your /etc/hosts file
>  like this:
> 
>  172.16.0.10     windowsbox
> 
> 
>  On Wed, 1 May 2002 cparrish@cox.net wrote:
> 
>  > Okay I was assuming that the two problems were related. Does that mean
> that I won't *ever* be able to ping the windows boxes since they are using
> the WINS server to do name resolution? I really do have a nameserver set up
> in /etc/resolv.conf but it may be wrong no one here seems to know since dhcp
> takes care of all of that for them. I *think* smb.conf is fine since I can
> do everything there that I need to (with the exception of mounting to a
> windows share but as long as I can smbclient into them I can fake it).
>  > >
>  > > From: "Kevin Brown" <kevin_brown@qwest.net>
>  > > Date: 2002/05/01 Wed PM 08:37:44 EDT
>  > > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>  > > Subject: Re: Name resolution in a Windows enviornment
>  > >
>  > > OK, sounds like you are getting a couple things confused.  WINS servers
> are used
>  > > for windows boxes to find each other by name.  These get configured
> into Samba
>  > > in the smb.conf file.  DNS is used to find a standard domain name out
> on the Net
>  > > or in an internal network.  DNS translates slashdot.org to
> 64.28.67.150.
>  > >
>  > > So, add the WINS servers to smb.conf, DNS servers to /etc/resolv.conf
> and then
>  > > Samba should be able to translate a Windows box name to an IP.  You
> don't need
>  > > to change anything in /etc/hosts.conf or resolv.conf for Samba.
>  >
>  >
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