Hi R!
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, 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?
just install dhcp-client
> 2>> How do I get the DNS information automatically from the win2k server
> instead of having to put it in /etc/hosts?
dh-client will retreive the dns information automatically if the win2k
dhcp server is configured to provide them. it will also retreive the
default gateway and set the default route.
> 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)
on the command line with smbclient you can do so, tough not very
comfortable... you propably want to try smb2www so you can browse the smb
shares via browser (needs an http server)
> Thanks to any who can help. Obviously linux support here is limited, so I'm
> grateful for any guidence.
yours martin
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