[TriLUG] Linux DNS Server issues with DOS client

[David McDowell]

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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