Dhcp/DNS problems with NT Domain

[snyk]

I am trying to run a Linux Client (redhat 7.1 and Suse both tried) on an NT domain.

Using DHCP I get an IP address but the DHCP server is not updating the DNS server.

I have tried DHCPCD with -h (hostname), -B to broadcst etc to no avail. I setup a private domain with a win2k server running dhcp/dns both and got it to update randomly..

Any Ideas on how to force an NT DHCP server to update the DNS records ?

Thanks

[miker]

are you sure you're not confusing DNS records with WINS entries?

you may need to run samba and configure it with the WINS server on your network -- but DHCP will not update this (smb.conf) until some nice person writes the script for DHCLIENT to run to amend the entry in smb.conf for every time you switch networks

[hmmm ... just re-read your post, i think win2k does use a special brand of M$ DDNS]

if you are using DDNS then I would expect there is a solution out there somewhere on google.com

[snyk]

All the DDNS stuff I found was for posting DHCP based IP's for websites, not for updating DNS servers on intranets. The problems is that the only way to reach the Linux system is by IP since the DNS is not getting a hostname record from the DHCP server, and the Linux client is not registering with the DNS server either :(