mjstone03

I was looking into getting Microsoft Press books to study for MCP's in Server 03' but I'm not sure that is the way to go-people on Barnes and Noble reviews bash them(the books, that is). Does anybody have any opinions on which book set is the best? (sybex, microsoft, etc.) Thanks

Okay- I configured the named.conf file and the windows server successfully pushes the zones. However when I check the log/messages file it says that the zone was transfered, followed by 'dumping master file-.....-: open: permission denied' something or other, followed by a 'failed while receiving responses, permission denied'. Not sure what to do at this point. It looks right. Here's what I've got- The global options are default(directory, statistics-file) }; controls { inet 127.0.0.0 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; }; }; zone "." IN { type hint; file "named.ca"; }; zone "abc.com" IN { type slave; masters { 192.168.1.254; } file "slave.abc.com"; }; zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" IN { type slave; masters { 192.168.1.254; } file "slave.1.168.192"; }; zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN { type master; file "named.local"; allow-update { none; }; }; include "/etc/rndc.key";

I was just wondering what you opinion(s) are for the best book on learning/training for a linux cert, either redhat or linux+. Just getting some ideas. I'm gearing up for some MCP's, but I would also like to get a nice foundation in linux.

Hi. I'm trying to configure a linux(RH Enterprise Server 4) secondary DNS server for a zone that's hosted by a WIndows 2k box, both primary forward and reverse lookup zones. The windows machine has dynamic updates selected and zone transfers enabled by ip address for both zones, and a forwarder enabled- nslookup looks good. The linux machine has it's ip statically set with primary dns server pointing to windows, secondary itself, dns search path set. The windows machine will be promoted to domain controller after successful DNS configs. Windows 2k IP-192.168.1.254/24 gateway=192.168.1.254 DNS=192.168.1.254 DNS forward zone=abc.com DNS reverse zone=1.168.192 DNS forwarder= 10.71.100.100 w/recursion DNS dynamic updates enable for both forward/reverse DNS zone transfers by IP=192.168.1.253 -nslookup checks out Linux IP-192.168.1.253/24 gateway=192.168.1.254 DNS Primary=192.168.1.254, Secondary=192.168.1.253, DNS search path= abc.com, DNS Hostname= linux01.mbi.com How should I config the named file? After I configured the file the first time, I then swithed the network config so it pointed to itself for DNS first, then windows 2nd. Any pointers you can give me would be much appreciated. Thanks.

how are yah. I've got a few questions about Active Directory, so I hope there are some experts out there. 1. After installing AD on a machine and pointing to itself for DNS, then creating another DC on same domain and site for replication/redundancy, should each machine point to itself for DNS and the other for secondary? 2. Once first site is up and running I decide to make a child domain on remote subnet. Do I install DNS first or after promotion? After installation, if I want the remote site to go through first site to internet, do I have to configure DNS forwarding and put in those DC's as forwarders? If so, should I use recursion or no? Then do the DC's on the first site forward DNS requests with recursion to ISP DNS servers? Sorry if this sounds absolutely insane, but it's driving me nuts thinking about it. Oh yeah-another problem... When I initially tried this I could not log onto the remote DC after promotion(promoted using the enterprise admin account while logged in with local admin account). Why wouldn't that work? My head was about to explode the other night troubleshooting this stuff.

I have a question that has been perplexing me for a few weeks now(it sounds so simple too): In a single domain, single forest network, I bring up my first DC and install an AD-integrated DNS zone. On my other DC's (some local, some remote, same single domain) when I promote, I look to that first DC for DNS. After I finish promoting(it never asks to install DNS), can I configure hosts to point to that second DC for DNS? Does the DNS zone data get replicated by default without installing DNS due to multimaster replication? I am seriously confused about this.

What's up. I'm attempting to install win2k DC's on 3 different sites. Each site will have 2 DC's, no child domains. 1 forest, 1 domain. I want AD-integrated DNS zones for each DNS server( each dc running dns ). How does this work? When I promoted the first one, installed AD-integrated DNS, then promoted the 2nd DC on the same site, everything worked fine. DNS was automatically installed and working. When I promoted the first DC at a different physical site (connecitivity was established), different subnet, it didn't install DNS or prompt me. When I try to install it it only allow me to install a primary or a secondary. Also, if I just decided to do secondary servers, are they AD integrated by default when pulling zones from the AD server? I hope this isn't too confusing.

Cool- good reading. I changed the plan though. The domain will be run in win2k native mode, so I'll join the samba server to the domain and attempt to recreate the shares and permissions on the samba server so I can take down the windows DC without any major issues. I need an opinion now, if you can help. Would you run a Windows WINS server if you were spanning 3 physical sites (one WINS server on each site w/replication) or would you run 3 samba servers, if you were planning on moving to all Linux within the next few years? The reason I ask is that I read that there is no way to replicate the samba WINS database. Just looking for an opinion really. Worst case scenario would be a whole lot of broadcasting over the WAN until names were registered I guess.

I'm interesting in using a linux machine to run in parallel with the windows machines in an active directory domain. I guess my question is, is it possible? How would you enable a Linux DNS server to replicate to the DC running DNS as a Primary Zone (not AD integrated). The domain is in mixed mode and the zone transfers will have to replicate across three sites. Each site has 2 DC's hosting primary lookup zones. Also, not too make things more complicated, but I need to also run a linux dhcp server specifically for fault tolerance in case the windows one goes down. I know this sounds kind of vague, but I'm just looking for a general explanation, or maybe someone can point me in the right direction for some documentation. Thanks people.

So if I typed - chmod 774 filename - while logged in as root and aiming to give rwx access to the owner(user1),the owner's group(group1), and read permission to others, that command will only give rwx permissions to the user1 and group1? Or does it give access to the owner, group1, and every other group the owner(user1) belongs to, if he belongs to other groups? Maybe I'm making this more confusing than it really is, but I'm just not getting it.

What I was looking to do was give rwx permissions to a group, lets say group1 with 10 users in it(the owner/creator of the file is in the group already). Others and other groups can have read access.

it looks like it might be working. What I did was in the first line of the fstab file(LABEL=/.....) I added usrquota. Then I rebooted successfully and forced a quotacheck. This is the farthest I've gotten, and it's lookin good.

okay, here's the fstab file: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 What I want to do is enable quotas for "/home" which is on the "/", on hda5. I've tried adding lines: LABEL=/ /home ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 1 then LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 1 and finally /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 1 the 3rd one didn't give me an error, but I still couldn't start quotas.

I can't seem to get disk quotas running with Redhat9. Everytime I modify the fstab file the machine will say, during reboot, it's dropping to a shell, in which case I run init 5 and change the fstab file back to the way it was. I guess my question is, do disk quotas have to be enabled on a seperate partition? I have 3 partitions- /, boot, swap(dual booting w/win2kserv.). I'm trying to enable quotas for the users(ten users, 20 mb each) home folders in the /home directory. Any suggestions? I think I've tried every possible combination in that fstab file.

okay, but when you do a chmod 774, or 770, does it only give r,w,x permissions to the group that the person who created it belongs to? Or does it give the access to all groups? What I'm getting at is, what if that user belongs to multiple groups? How do you specify permissions to that particular group? Now I'm beginnging to confuse myself.