Re: static ip to dhcp conversion -- getting a hostname
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:16:34PM -0600, Alan Shutko wrote:
> This is really a fairly common setup. As I mentioned, Windows and Mac
> don't generally really care what the hostname associated with their IP
> is. Few applications care. So DHCP servers just hand out IPs, and
Not true for Windows. If multiple IPs and DNS aliases are made for a
Windows machine, IIS and other TCP/IP apps will work the same on any IP
or hostname. And NetBios will work with any IP address, but it will
only work with the DNS name which equals the NetBios name. NetBios is
used for File Sharing and also NTLM authentication, but only kinda sorta
for Kerberos and NT Process Authentication. Lots of subtle
interdependencies.
This can get really interesting with Cluster Server where the NETBios
name is a Cluster resource that can be owned by one member or the other
while both machines are responding on all IPs. Like everything else in
Windows, it's complicated.
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