[seul-edu] Linux boxes and a win2k server

["RRPotratz" <rpotratz@vbe.com>]

Greetings,

I'm teaching in a mission school in Niger and I've inherited an LAN of 12 of 
win98/win2k machines, in a network with a win2k server taking the DNS, 
DHCP and log on chores and some file serving.  To this mix I would like to 
add a couple of linux machines to serve web pages and perhaps do some
modem sharing between some of the win machines.  By doing this, I will 
also be exposing some sixty students to Linux and the rest of the staff and 
administration of the school as well. 

Having only used linux on a peer to peer networking situations I need some 
guidence as to how to get the Linux box to get DNS and DHCP services 
from the win2k server.

The machine in questions will be 75-100MHz Pentiums with 32-48 MB 
Ram.........no X GUI  

Specifically I need to know:
1 >> What things (/etc files?  config files?) do I need to change to get the IP 
address for the linux boxes from the win2k server?  Is there some client I need 
to have running?

2>>  How do I get the DNS information automatically from the win2k server
instead of having to put it in /etc/hosts?

3>> When this is done, will logging on to the linux box also give me access to 
my network resources on the win2k server?  (assuming a working samba 
config)

Thanks to any who can help.  Obviously linux support here is limited, so I'm 
grateful for any guidence.

Randal Potratz
SIM Niger    


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