[TriLUG] Linux DNS Server issues with DOS client

[David McDowell]

oops... NetBIOS over TCP/IP ... sorry.  :)


On 8/5/05, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> DOS might need WINS?  (or worse the old TCP/IP over NetBIOS, if you
> have that disabled, DOS may have trouble I suspect... only a pure W2k
> and newer network can handle that being disabled... which a lot of
> people do to reduce network chatter)  For my pptp vpn clients (even in
> a ClarkConnect setup), I have to run WINS so they can successfully map
> drives to the file server shares through the vpn.
> 
> hope that helps, if not, good luck!  :)
> David McD
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/5/05, Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org> wrote:
> > I have a DNS server along with 2 Windows servers that are on a private
> > network. I'll give the server setup below for reference.
> >
> >  I've setup the DNS and DHCP on RHEL3. The problem I'm having is with a
> > boot disk. It is a DOS based (no remarks please) diskette that runs an
> > automated process for us. In the autoexec.bat it makes a drive mapping
> > with net use:  net use O: \\server2\share in a loop:
> >
> > ...
> > :net
> > net use O: \\server2\share
> > if errorlevel 1 goto net
> > ...
> >
> > The problem: When it tries to map this drive, it fails 8 times before it
> > finally is able to map the drive.  This happens from ANY network drop I
> > have on this private network. And it is exactly 8 failures EVERY time. I
> > cannot manually map from the DOS diskette. I've tried to manually do
> > this 10 times in a row, so I have to put it in a bat file to make it loop.
> >
> > I've run named-checkconf and named-checkzone on my zones. All but 1 seem
> > to pass. I'm not sure how to run named-checkzone on named.ca - could
> > someone advise on this?
> >
> > Here's what I have so far:
> > Server1: RHEL3 running DHCPD and NAMED. On this server I can dig and
> > nslookup server2 and server3 via full qualified name or just servername.
> >
> > Server2: Windows 2000 Standard. 3 shares. If I put net use in a loop I
> > can get to them via the DOS diskette.
> >
> > Server3: Windows 2003 Enterprise. 2 shares. If I put net use in a loop I
> > can get to them via the DOS diskette.
> >
> > Any suggestions on troubleshooting this?
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