NFS help

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

> >
> This may sound a little callous, but the first thing I think you should do
> is read up on NFS, DNS, DHCP.  Cause you are trying to do something you have
> no idea how to do.  The reason I am saying this is that you need to know how
> a name is resolved in order to see how to mount the resource.  Tha
> assignment of the IP is irrelevant to what you are doing, what you should be
> worried about is how everyone resolves the name you assign the resource and
> that will be done thru the DNS.  So if everyone is looking for resource A
> then when DHCP assigns a IP to resource A and that resource is reported to
> the DMS server then everyone can mount the resource cause they know who and
> what it is cause the DNS is going to report its current ip address and if it
> changes it will report the new one so everyone will always be happy.  So
> forget the assignment of a fixed IP and worry about resolving the name with
> the DNS.  Hopefully you will go out on the net and search for the facts you
> need and see what you need to do.  It might make it easier in your mind to
> assign a fixed IP but it in no way a necessary requirement for what you are
> wanting to do.  Good Luck!!!!!!!!!1
>
Go ahead and be a little callous - you also answered my question
at least it's helping to confirm what I was picking up from the
discussion.

Basically, if I'm going to use DHCP to assign IP addresses then I
need to also set up a local DNS server to connect the new IP
addresses with the hostnames already assigned to the computers.
I haven't been able to do any reading on this but I'm guessing
the DNS server must do this by knowing the combination
of hostnames and MAC addresses then when the DHCP server assigns
the new IP address it must repor that somehow to the DNS server
with the MAC address - the DNS ties the two MAC addresses
together and bingo I can go from hostname to IP.  Now more
reading to do.