Hello guys,

I have a heterogenious network Windows DC,DNS & DHCP + Exchange and Slackware Workstations. The Slackware workstation won't register them selves in the Windows DNS when they get the IP addresses from the Windows DHCP. I allowed non-secure DNS updates and also allowed the DHCP Server to update the dns records but still not working. Am i mising something on the slackware side?

every help is appreciated

thank you very much

just a quick thought - i have a few platforms at home: a few flavors of linux, a mac, and both windows xp and vista. i accomplish my filesharing by dedicating my oldest slackware box to be a file server - i access it via rsync, s/ftp, ssh, samba, and subversion. i had a lot of trouble getting the names to work on the local network until i enabled samba on all the linux boxes - then both the mac and windows machines could refer to the linux boxes via local hostname. for ease of administration I also converted my fairly isolated dhcp subnet to a static-ip subnet, with wireless still enabled and a dhcp range from x.x.x.100-199 to take care of anything fleeting.

maybe enabling samba will help you get the machine names into windows dns. also make sure you have the hostname specified in the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf so that rc.inet1 sends the machine name in the dhcp request.

hopefully you can get it to work!