Re: Linux and Win2k Servers
AFAIK, All you need to do is start pump or dhcpcd, and they should
configure the rest. :)
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 11:46, R R Potratz wrote:
> 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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