Integrating Active Directory and Linux DNS servers

[Edward Croft]

On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 10:39, Graham Leggett wrote:
> Edward Croft wrote:
> 
> > Can Active Directory work with Linux based DNS?
> 
> As far as I am aware, yes.
> 
> Where DNS fits in, as that DNS is used instead of an explicite WINS 
> setting for AD aware machines to find things like domain servers, etc.
> 
> What you need to do is set up your DNS to contain various DNS names 
> within your domain, pointing at the various services on your domain. 
> Info on how to do this is in the Samba HOWTO v3.0, from www.samba.org - 
> look for info about AD and DNS.
> 
> You need not install Samba to do any of this - the Samba docs do explain 
> a lot of the M$ specific setup stuff in a non-"just click-click-click 
> and it magically works" way, and is very useful if you want to know 
> what's really going on.
> 
> Regards,
> Graham
Thanks Graham. Didn't think to look at Samba.