> I know this is something silly, but it will help me clear my confusion > that I have about DNS and Domain Controllers thanks to Windows > Networking Styles.
DNS and Domain Controllers have nothing to do with each other. You may be confusing DNS with name resolution in general. DNS is only one method of resolving names. For example, in Linux, there are several ways to resolve names: * /etc/hosts * DNS * NIS In Windows, there are also several ways to resolve names: * \WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS * DNS * SMB My guess is that your question is how does SMB name resolution work. Basically, with SMB, your Windows clients send out a broadcast request on their local LAN segment to get the names of all of the computers on that segment. With this, it does not matter if a domain controller is present. It also doesn't matter what IP addresses the clients have. If you have their name set up in their "Network Identification" tab, no matter what IP address they have, when someone broadcast queries them, they will report their assigned name. So basically, you don't need to do anything with Linux or DNS to get the Windows computers to talk to each other and recognize each other's names on the network. All you need to do is set up a DHCP server to assign everyone an IP address, and do IP masquerading. If you want to set up your server as a domain controller as well, you can, but it still has nothing to do with name resolution, which is handled by the SMB protocol, not DNS. If this is what you want, let me know, and I'll pass you some links. Jon -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
