Registering linux clients with windows DNS?


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Hey,

How can you get linux clients (fedora) to automatically register with a windows dns?

thanks

What do you mean exactly? I wouldn't think that it would matter.

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DNS? :unsure:

Do you mean you want your Linux box to present a netbios name? I think that is set up in samba.

Unless you are talking about something different.

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You would have the dhcp server update dns for clients that do not support updating dns. If the clients are static -- then you would just create the 1 time entry in dns for them.

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserve...3.mspx?mfr=true

The DHCP server can be used to register and update the pointer (PTR) and host (A) resource records on behalf of its DHCP-enabled clients.

Where you might have a problem is most of the time linux clients will not send the host name to the dhcp server.. in dhclient.conf

send host-name "hostname";

An you should be good to go.

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Thanks all for your replies.

Budman - I had tried setting DHCP to automatically update the records, but did not know about editing dhclient.conf so will give this a try first.

Edit: where there is "hostname", do you actually put in the hostname or will it automatically find it? will it hurt to put in a different hostname inside the "?

thanks

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