ftpaccess and Windows98 clients running DHCP

[Richard Mertz]

With a class statement like: class real *.domainname
I can not get my DHCP windows clients in the domain to ftp to my 11.0 box. If I temporarily create a DNS and pointer entry, it works fine.

Doing a ping -a {IP Address} on the 11.0 box results in a "name lookup failed"
Doing a ping -o {IP Address} on a Windows box results in the name and domain.

We are using WINS resolution on our DHCP server. Any ideas on how to get OS to find the name so I can restrict ftp to/from clients in our domain? I know I can use IP ranges and I am doing that. However, I would love to get the domainname class mask to work.

[Rick Garland]

Sounds like you will need some DNS setup. Make a named server but don't have to include the WINS DHCP. In the Networks-Protocols-DNS area of MSWIN, can set the system for resolve. Still can have the WINS functioning as well to handle the WINS DHCP systems.

[Tim Malnati]

It is my understanding that WINS is actually performing the IP resolution, not DNS. DNS does not have the capability to handle dynamic IP allocation. I don't have a WINS server at my disposal but my thought is that you may be able to resolve it with nslookup from the HP box using the server option pointing to the WINS server.