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I found your message on the debian mailing list and I would like to point out that you could use dynamic DNS. In that way your DNS records can be updated from the DHCP server and your lookup would work.

Regards,
Johannes

Question. I have several Windows clients in our network you have to use DHCP. The DHCP server is a Linux server, which also acts as the DNS server. However, a separate Linux server needs to know how to resolve the NetBios name of one such Windows client (let's say his NetBios name is ACCT).

If I just type ping acct. It won't find acct. If I type smbclient -L \\ACCT, it finds it. I have tried changing parts of the smb.conf file, but I'm not sure that that has anything to do with this problem (or does it?). I can't put a ACCT entry into the DNS server as it's address is dynamic.


What options are there for me to get this Linux server to resolve ACCT's ip address?


Curtis Vaughan

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