[aclug-L] Re: Whining and bickering--and assistance to newbies

[Greg House <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> Michael Holmes wrote:
>>I still have to
> > figure out how to put a linux workstation on a NT network!
> 
> About the only thing I did was to put all of the local machines IP addresses
> and names into the hosts files. For Linux this is /etc/hosts. For Windows NT,
> look for hosts or hosts.sam somewhere under C:\winnt. hosts.sam is a sample
> of what a hosts file might look like. This should be enough to let you ping
> both ways, and to run ftp/telnet on NT and connect to the Linux box. (You may
> also have to work with /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny, depending on how
> security is set up on the Linux box.)

On the NT side, it's: bootdrive:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts  and/or
lmhosts. I'm still not clear when lmhosts gets used. I think it has something
to do with whether you're using standard network utilities, or using the
networking calls in the RTL. I always set them the same and it seemed to take
care of any issues. Of course, on most networks, you can use DNS take care of
name resolution and forget the files.

Now, if you're plugging your Linux machine into an established NT network, you
probably won't find anything in the files to help you set up your Linux hosts
file. I've never tried to set one up on a larger network that didn't have a DNS
server.

> Of course, there's much more that _could_ be done, but that's as far as I've
> pushed it. I don't use NT, and my NT user is happy just having telnet/ftp.

For a start, you'd probably want to use Samba to let you mount the NT shared
directories. Beyond that, I guess it'd depend on what you wanted to do.

Greg

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