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| ITGL72 2001-09-02, 7:21 pm |
| I'm working on 70-216, couple little things I seem to be missing, maybe someone can clear it up.
I have a 5 machine network for lab purposes. 4 of them are W2K, and one is a ME machine.
I haven enabled dynamic updates on the DNS server and have DHCP shooting out the needed information to the clients.
Now when I look in DNS, I see that all of the machines in the domain have their IP addresses listed in the zone, but not the machine with the windows ME on it.
I currently do not have a WINS server in place, so the ME pc from what I understand, would not have a means to do name resolution, or IS it using DNS for name resolution?
I was stuck thinking NT and W9x machines could only use WINS for name resolution in a network. W2K used DNS.
But the ME pc MUST be using DNS for name resolution because when I ping any of the computers on the network from the ME machine using their host names it resolves. Plus I can ping from any W2K machine and get results when pinging the ME pc by name.
What am I missing? Did the client ME pc broadcast its info when looking for a wins server (which it didn't find) have its info saved somewhere?
I feel pretty good about most things thus far put this scenario has my puzzled!
ALSO, I'm not entirely sure what these GROUPS have to do with anything inside of WINS? Does an administrator need to administer anything in WINS to put clients in groups, or is it just something that is done automatically? The groups I'm questioning are the NORMAL GROUP, DOMAIN NAME GROUP, INTERNET GROUP, MULTIHOMED GROUP.
Thanks for any help! Edging closer to 70-216 - 210,215 done!  | |
| el duderino 2001-09-05, 10:57 am |
| Hi,
When you say you are pinging the other computers from the Me machine by hostname, I assume that you mean the netbios name. If this is the case, the Me machine is simply resolving those via broadcasts on the subnet. Are you able to resolve using fqdn? Also, on the dhcp server have you enabled "always update dns" and "enable updates for clients that do not support dynamic updates"? This would cause dhcp to update the A and PTR records for the Me machine in DNS. (Me is a downlevel client and can't communicate directly with a DDNS server). Anyway, I hope this helps a bit.
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