Samba won't dance (more info)

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 16 April 2008 08:37:06 Tim wrote:
> Tim:
> >> I found it easier to configure Samba to use normal DNS style
> >> resolution, rather than have yet another file to configure (the
> >> lmhosts file).
>
> Anne Wilson:
> > What exactly do you mean by 'normal DNS style'?
>
> On Linux, just about all networking things (e.g. mail, remote access to
> a shell, X display, etc.), usually makes use of the Domain Name System
> to resolve names and addresses.  It can do that by making use of a local
> hosts file, or a DNS server.
>
> Since you've already got that system in place (or probably should do),
> it makes little sense to have to manage yet another separate thing that
> does almost the same thing, especially if you have things which will get
> different addresses from time to time.  If you have working DNS, then
> all other services should really "just work".
>
> The origins of SMB predates the common use of TCP/IP and DNS in a LAN,
> hence why it has other methods, and used to (if it doesn't still)
> default to using other techniques.  For Samba, you'd change the order of
> things it uses to try and resolve names, to put DNS ahead of other
> techniques.
>
> There's a similar set of circumstances for Linux networking, if you look
> at the nsswitch.conf file, you can change how your box resolves names.
> The usual default is to first try the hosts file, then do a DNS lookup,
> and there's other options, as well.
>
OK.  I never used the lmhosts file before this incarnation.  It was configured 
while I was still trying to find out why samba just would not work for me 
this time round.  It's probably being ignored anyway.  Thanks for answering.

Anne
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