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    Configuring Linux Client to Access Windows DNS

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    by isaias.barroso ·

    Hi All,

    How to configure Linux Workstations to use a Windows DNS Server?
    I’m utilizing Suse 9.2.
    My Linux machines don’t appear on Windows DNS.
    In Linux if i put ping the Windows machine is found, but if i put ping the machine isn’t found.
    if i put nslookup
    the machine is found.

    If anybody have a tutorial or link please send-me

    Thanks

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    • #3172691

      not sure where

      by jaqui ·

      In reply to Configuring Linux Client to Access Windows DNS

      suse keeps it, but if you tell it to rquire dns, and what ip address to find the dns server then it should work just fine.

    • #2600766

      Configuring Linux Client to Access Windows DNS

      by rmailhot ·

      In reply to Configuring Linux Client to Access Windows DNS

      In an organization where Windows is the primary DNS server for your linux clients, and your local domain is the default .local, you should set up your /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/host.conf in the following manner.

      /etc/resolve.conf
      domain .domain
      nameserver

      /etc/host.conf
      order hosts, bind
      mdns off
      multi on

      The trick is the mdns setting in the /etc/host.conf file. You should make an entry in this file ‘mdns off’. For those of you who use Yast or other helpful tools this setting is often overlooked.

    • #2812263

      which command do i issue to view all client machines

      by bockaman ·

      In reply to Configuring Linux Client to Access Windows DNS

      hi all
      i would like to know which command i can issue to view all client machines using widows server when am on a linux machine

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