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Hey,

Currently, I have a small, two computer network.  I have a linux server with
samba, dns, and ftp installed.  The DNS works fine through the linux machine,
but not the windows one.  The only way I'm able to ping the server(using host
names) from windows is to connect to the internet.  For example, the only way I
can access my local ftp server is to connect to the internet.  On my win
client, I have specified the DNS server IP in the network properties.  Any clue
on what may be wrong.  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks for your time,
Bryan

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>Currently, I have a small, two computer network.  I have a linux server with
>samba, dns, and ftp installed.  The DNS works fine through the linux machine,
>but not the windows one.  The only way I'm able to ping the server(using host
>names) from windows is to connect to the internet.  For example, the only way I
>can access my local ftp server is to connect to the internet.  On my win
>client, I have specified the DNS server IP in the network properties.  Any clue
>on what may be wrong.  Any help would be appreciated.

Check /var/log/messages to see what IPs named is listening on, and also
during any queries from your LAN box (assuming that you pointed Windows to
the LAN IP of your Linux box for DNS).  Make sure that you have forward
and reverse lookup zones for your LAN (or local names in /etc/hosts AND
\windows\hosts, hosts.sam is just an example).

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Quote:> Hey,

> Currently, I have a small, two computer network.  I have a linux server
with
> samba, dns, and ftp installed.  The DNS works fine through the linux
machine,
> but not the windows one.  The only way I'm able to ping the server(using
host
> names) from windows is to connect to the internet.  For example, the only
way I
> can access my local ftp server is to connect to the internet.  On my win
> client, I have specified the DNS server IP in the network properties.  Any
clue
> on what may be wrong.  Any help would be appreciated.

> Thanks for your time,
> Bryan

everything seems to work fine.  A spoke with a network technician at school and
he said there was no way for windows to recognize a linux DNS server.  He said
the only the solution was to manually insert the names and IP's in the
windows/hosts file.  is this true?

Quote:>everything seems to work fine.  A spoke with a network technician at school and
>he said there was no way for windows to recognize a linux DNS server.  He said
>the only the solution was to manually insert the names and IP's in the
>windows/hosts file.  is this true?

Bullshit.  Done that for years.  It is all the same DNS code as comming
from ISC.

Villy

Quote:> A spoke with a network technician at school and he said there was no
> way for windows to recognize a linux DNS server.

On the face of it that's an idiotic statement.  None of the root name
servers run Windows, and many, maybe most, ISP name servers are Linux or
FreeBSD.  If this were true, Windows could not function on the Internet.

Quote:> He said the only the solution was to manually insert the names and
> IP's in the windows/hosts file.

No.  The solution is to enter the IP address of the DNS in the Windows
networking setup.  It is under Control Panel->Network->TCP/IP Properties.

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