randomnut Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 Hey, How can you get linux clients (fedora) to automatically register with a windows dns? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foub Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted March 14, 2008 Veteran Share Posted March 14, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyro Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 http://directory.fedoraproject.org/ http://www.directory.fedora.redhat.com/wik...wto:WindowsSync http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Au...ll_Architecture I havent come across a setup to implement this , but should work for you. Let us know how did this solve :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted March 16, 2008 MVC Share Posted March 16, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomnut Posted March 17, 2008 Author Share Posted March 17, 2008 (edited) 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 Edited March 17, 2008 by randomnut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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