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List:       linux-ipchains
Subject:    Re: [Ipchains] Re: netbios over IPCHAINS
From:       Brian Finley <bfinley () thefinleys ! com>
Date:       1999-05-28 14:48:01
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"Bernhard Riegel (sdm)" wrote:
> 
> Brian Finley wrote:
> >
> > Be sure that your Windows client is using your company WINS server.  If it
> > is using WINS, then it only uses broadcasts for NETBios name resolution if
> > it doesn't find the information in WINS.
> >
> >  Brian Elliott Finley
> >  Technical Support Engineer
> >  VA Linux Systems
> >  bfinley@valinux.com
> >  http://valinux.com/
> >
> 
> Thank You for Your reply.
> We let the client use the lmhosts file, where the domain controller is
> listed in. So it should not use a broadcast for domain logon.

Ok.  This should work for the client.

> But the domain controller uses a broadcast to find the NT client, but
> doesn't get a result. 

Ok.

> A nslookup from the client for the clients
> hostname at the domain nameserver yields: not found because of
> non-existent domain.

nslookup is for DNS not for netbios.  You can use nbtstat to get 
netbios information.

> Perhaps we have to force the PDC (using lmhosts) to use the IP of the
> linux box for reaching the client?

This should work.  But it involves more work in the long run --> hand 
editing a file on the server each time a client changes addresses.  And
if another machine needs to contact the client, you will have to edit 
that machines lmhosts file too.

The best solution is to run WINS on the PDC (or use "wins support = yes" 
if the server is running SaMBa) and tell the client to use WINS.  In
this 
configuration, when the client comes on, it contacts the WINS server and 
registers it's name and IP address.  The WINS server (and all other 
machines using it for WINS services) can now resolve the netbios 
name for the client.  And it's automated from here on out ;)

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-- 
 Brian Elliott Finley
 Technical Support Engineer
 VA Linux Systems
 bfinley@valinux.com
 http://valinux.com/

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