Re: [seul-edu] Linux boxes and a win2k server

[Alan Chen <alan@digikata.com>]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 06:59:33PM +0100, RRPotratz wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm teaching in a mission school in Niger and I've inherited an LAN of 12 of 
> win98/win2k machines, in a network with a win2k server taking the DNS, 
> DHCP and log on chores and some file serving.  To this mix I would like to 
> add a couple of linux machines to serve web pages and perhaps do some
> modem sharing between some of the win machines.  By doing this, I will 
> also be exposing some sixty students to Linux and the rest of the staff and 
> administration of the school as well. 
> 
> Having only used linux on a peer to peer networking situations I need some 
> guidence as to how to get the Linux box to get DNS and DHCP services 
> from the win2k server.
> 
> The machine in questions will be 75-100MHz Pentiums with 32-48 MB 
> Ram.........no X GUI  
> 
> Specifically I need to know:
> 1 >> What things (/etc files?  config files?) do I need to change to get the IP 
> address for the linux boxes from the win2k server?  Is there some client I need 
> to have running?

You need a dhcp client. You didn't mention which linux distribution you're running.
There's a client called pump, I you're using debian, there's also dhcpcd (dhcp client daemon).

> 2>>  How do I get the DNS information automatically from the win2k server
> instead of having to put it in /etc/hosts?

specify the ip if the win2k server in /etc/resolv.conf.  "man resolv.conf" will tell
you the syntax.

> 3>> When this is done, will logging on to the linux box also give me access to 
> my network resources on the win2k server?  (assuming a working samba 
> config)
>
> Thanks to any who can help.  Obviously linux support here is limited, so I'm 
> grateful for any guidence.
> 
> Randal Potratz
> SIM Niger    
> 
> 
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> 
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