Hi Jon Thanks a ton for response,will appreciate if you can send me some links about how Doamin Controllers work in Linux so that I can have a broader understanding.
Regards Harish ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Bartlett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:22 PM Subject: Re: Domain Controller in Linux > > 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 > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
