On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:37:23PM +0100, Joe wrote: > Mirco Piccin wrote: >> Hi all. >> >>>> I have 2 new running Debian Etch :-) server into an (old) Windows >>>> environment. >>>> Servers work like a charm, but i am not able to ping them by hostname. >>>> They are configured with a static ip address and have samba installed and >>>> working. >> >>> Is there some problem with adding the machines as A records in the Windows >>> DNS Management console? >> >> I am not the Windows Administrator. So i call the man who administer >> the DNS and DHCP server. >> He tell me that the Windows 2003 DNS service does not allow dns entry >> update if the machine is not registered in Active Directory. >> > He's talking out of his bottom. agreed > > I also walk the Dark Path, and I administer a Small Business Server > 2003, based on Windows Server 2003. It has an Etch server, two routers > and a printer in the forward lookup zone of the local domain, absolutely > none of which are domain members, but all, by virtue of DNS entries, > known to AD. > > How in hell's name does he make a gateway router an AD member? Possibly > AD won't accept a zone transfer from a non-AD machine, but there's > nothing stopping him entering it by hand. > > It's right click, New Host (A)... so the guy (windows admin) has 2 options, enter a static A record in the dns zone or setup a static DHCP entry, dhcp will update the zone for us as well (all of this done on the windows box), just give him your mac address A > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- "Stercus, stercus, stercus, moriturus sum." (Interesting Times)
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