[TriLUG] Linux DNS Server issues with DOS client

[Aaron Joyner]

Mark Shuford wrote:

>Well, this isn't DOS; it says windows. There's a checkie box
>(TM)(SM)(C)(BS) in the Windows setup, somewhere, that says 'use DNS for
>name resolution' or some such. That and setting stuff in the DNS tab is
>s'posed to do what you're after.
>  
>
I'm pretty sure what Roy was asking about a is true, honest-to-gosh 
MS-DOS environment.  Probably along the lines of version 6.22.  In this 
ancient land, where things were not good and the age was still dark, 
life was not happy.  Vendors came up with their own networking 
protocols, installing drivers involved editing configuration files 
*gasp*, and the average user was glum, toiling away at his forge trying 
to make something sharp with which to kill his neighbor, when all of his 
tools were dull.

In the more modern world, M$ has learned from a few of their mistakes, 
and stopped trying to reinvent the wheel.  They're resorted to what 
works best, copying the ideas that came before you, and improving upon 
them (also known as evolution).  Thus, a modern windows system uses 
Active Directory (which is LDAP and Kerberos, using DNS as the name 
lookup method).  But being a corporate entity obsessed with backward 
compatibility, they still support the old NetBios protocols, as well as 
their name look and resolution.  So yes, a modern windows system can do 
both DNS and NetBios resolution, but an older DOS system can not use DNS 
for name resolution of network shares, unfortunately.

Aaron S. Joyner