[seul-edu] NT, Linux, DDNS, Samba (was: Linux boxes and a win2k server)

[Michael Shigorin <mike@lic145.kiev.ua>]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:41:46AM -0600, Art Petrzelka wrote:
> There is one watch-out here when you're dealing with DNS, DHCP, WINS and 
> dynamic DNS updates using Windows NT 4.0 and 2000.
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> "BIND 8 supports dynamic updates. Unfortunately, Microsoft's DHCP server 
> doesn't yet send dynamic updates to DNS server. It only talks to Microsoft's 
> WINS servers. WINS servers handle dynamic updates, though only for NetBIOS 
What leads to thoughts of Samba.  And doing search on "dns.*up"
in smb.conf(5), we stumble upon exactly that stuff...

PS: I'm not exactly fair -- I've already heard of that hook :-)

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