redhat 8.0 as a PDC

[tatkins]

I have setup a firewall using rehat 8.0 it has a public ip and a private. That seems to work fine. On the private network I setup another computer as a PDC using DHCP. When I put a win2k pc on the private and bring it up the DHCP seems to work ( I get a private ip and a gateway,ipconfig). When I try to make the win2k machine join the domain I get a DNS error. Not really sure that it's a samba problem.

[kZahradnik]

http://www.samba-tng.org
Is the best thing to use as a PDC.

regards
Klaus

[tatkins]

I need network loggon for win2k, win98, and ME. I am trying to figure out if the problem is with my samba setup, or do I need to be running DNS on the private side. What I will have is a "DMZ" with my public IP's and the rest behind the firewall. I have an NT 4.0 machine on the public side. I would like to move those users behind the firewall and have them use the Linux box as a PDC to share files, share printers, that sort of stuff.

[100prcnt Marine]

on my home net work i use win2000 server and i'm using a domain model and it is required to have a dns in conjuction with dhcp for hostname resolution. for a long time i was using linux as a dhcp and a winserver for login for my kids but i could not figure out why i was getting asked for username and passwd every time i wanted to browse a comp in my domain or why my account restrtiction for my kids were'nt working and that was the answer.
how do i get dns werking on linux ? thats my dilema .

[netx2]

The samba 2.2 tree emulates a NT4 PDC ( not an AD Domain Controller), which is not dependent on DNS like Active Directory. The NT4 domain structure is still based on Netbios Names. Ensure that you have a name resolution service, whether it be WINS or DNS. Configure the SMB server to act as a WINS and add that to the ipconfig that is passed to your DHCP clients.