From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 27 9:15:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.hccnet.nl (pop.hccnet.nl [193.172.127.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61C3037B423 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 09:15:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.utp.net by pop.hccnet.nl via uds117-115.dial.hccnet.nl [193.173.115.117] with ESMTP id SAA02152 (8.8.5/1.13); Sun, 27 Aug 2000 18:15:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (janko@localhost) by parmenides.utp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA01035; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 18:15:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from janko@compuserve.com) X-Authentication-Warning: parmenides.utp.net: janko owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 18:15:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Janko van Roosmalen X-Sender: janko@parmenides.utp.net To: A Minkstein Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to setup DNS server? In-Reply-To: <000701c0103f$f5ba8680$02c810b0@server.compudorm.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Samba does not need a DNS server. You need a "/etc/hosts" file. My "hosts" file: 127.0.0.1 localhost.utp.net localhost 192.168.222.10 parmenides.utp.net parmenides 192.168.222.254 socrates.utp.net socrates 192.168.222.33 epicuris.utp.net epicuris 192.168.222.20 heraclitus.utp.net heraclitus 192.168.222.88 kuppo.utp.net kuppo socrates is a dual-boot Linux/Win95 sytem. kuppo is a MS-DOS machine running the freely available Microsoft Client for DOS TCP/IP software. The same file you can copy to the Windows directory of the Win95/98 machines. Last year I bought the "SAMBA Black Book" by D.Baines published by Coriolis. I find it to be an excellent resource for running Samba. Janko van Roosmalen - Holland On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, A Minkstein wrote: > I want to setup a simple DNS server so that I can run Samba. Apparently > Samba requires that you have a DNS server. I want to know what I have > to do to setup DNS so that I can get Samba to work. Can someone help > me? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message