After dealing with windows for what I believe to be over 20 years if you
include MS-DOS, I have begun the process of weaning myself away. First, I
bought a Macbook this fall. Last week, after getting viruses on both my
windows 2003 server and windows XP machines, I wiped out both machines. The
server machine is setting in a corner unattached, all of my data was backed
up of course. I installed Ubuntu server 8.10 on my Dell 4600 with both DNS
and DHCP servers. I have the following questions/problems/issues:
1. How do I set up DHCP reservations so that I can make sure that a couple
of my machines always have the same IP address?
2. Is it possible for the DHCP clients to register their names in the DNS
server so that I can access servers by name?
3. How do I assign a WINS server using the DHCP server?
4. I also set up a SAMBA server on the ubuntu server with the same work
group name as my windows group name on my vista machine. My printers
attached to the ubuntu server show up. However, I can't send a print job to
them because "Access denied, unable to connect".
This is as far as I have gone. I haven't tried to do any file sharing. I
just want the basics.
Oh, one more thing. I have an ATI Radeon X1550 dual display graphics card.
I know there is a command that I am supposed to execute to tell the system
to use both monitors, but I do not recall. I am have installed the KDE gui.