Re: [school-discuss] Linux and Active Directory/Windows networking

[jim stockford <jim@xxxxxxxx>]

  you might try using the ip address of the gateway
host on your local network rather than its name. if
that works, your hosts will be able to see the internet.
you might try putting an external DNS server (either
name or ip address) in /etc/resolv.conf.



On Jan 12, 2006, at 7:26 AM, "" <marilyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi!  I hope someone can help me.  I'm an educator and have used Linux 
> in
> teaching since '98.  This year I am in a new school district.  
> Formerly I taught
> in a district that used Novell.  I used RedHat for servers, Mandrake 
> on student
> stations, and occasionally used Knoppix CDs.  It was always easy 
> because all of
> the distros auto detected the network settings - maybe I had to put in 
> a few IPs
> here and there - but I was always able to easily make everything work.
>
> This district uses Active Directory.  I have not been able to make the 
> Linux
> network features work. I've tried DHCP, and I've tried static IPs, 
> entering DNS
> and gateway IPs.  None of the tech people know anything about Linux.  
> They have
> been friendly and very helpful - they use a proxy server and gave me 
> all of
> that info - but it still doesn't work.  Not with Knoppix, or Edubuntu. 
>  I ping
> the district IPs and get nothing.
>
> It was interesting that when I installed Edubuntu, somehow after the CD
> installation it reached the Internet to finish installing the 
> software.  I was
> out of the room when it was installing at the end and didn't see 
> messages.
>
> Anyway . . . I want to be able to use Knoppix CDs/DVDs and use my 
> Edubuntu
> installation . . . can anyone help me get around Active 
> Directory/Windows
> Networking?
>
> Marilyn