Check the FQDN on the windows boxes right click my computer + network identification tab check your network settings and go in to the advanced settings and look at DNS settings. Sam. Dana S. Millaway wrote: >I am sure this is an easy question for most of you but I have tried >various Google searches and searches in the Cobalt archives and either >it is so simple a question, no one has asked or I am not using the right >combination of search terms. :p > >I have a Cobalt Qube Pro3 running as our dns (and email and webserver) >for the school. The initial setup was easy because the only server we >needed to point our users to was the Qube and I was able to use the >admin gui (the OS is a modified RedHat 6 or 7 from Sun). However, now I >need to add several servers to the dns records - mostly web-based >applications for gradebooks and student curriculum. These services are >running on Win2K server, Win 2003 server (but we don't run a domain >controller), Novell 6.5, and Linux. When I try to add forward and >reverse records to the primary services in the gui, it insists on using >our domain and accepts the settings when I save. I thought it was >working but it is just my computer that works - perhaps because I have >accessed several of the servers from My Network Places. The other >windows and mac machines I have tried the links with cannot find the >server. > >Is there something special to how I have to name the servers when I am >configuring them? Is it possible to make a workgroup for the windows >servers that would be named like our domain name? Is there some other >file on the Qube I need to edit? I would really prefer to have the dns >method work because as we grow, some of the servers may change and my >users don't get how to change the ip address in the web address bar of >their browser. > >I apologize for the cross-posting but I need to also install security >certificates on some of the servers and I cannot do that until I am sure >I have the servers named appropriately. > >Thanks in advance for any pointers, fixes or well-wishes. ;) >(And I understand if I draw a few flames/RTM responses). > >Dana S. Millaway >District Technology Coordinator >Holdingford Public Schools >900 5th Street, P.O. Box 250 >320-746-2221 x467 >dmillaway at holdingford.k12.mn.us > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > >