Re: NetReg: Netreg with Mac clients

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From: Dan Bongert (dbongert@ssc.wisc.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 04 2003 - 13:23:32 CST

Hmm...I had assumed that since the DNS server box wasn't getting filled in,
nothing was happening. However, the (optional) next to the box makes me think
it only needs info in it if they're manually entered. Everything was, in
actuality, working fine.

Nothing to see here, move along.

On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 14:07:11 -0500
Steve Hideg <hideg@saintmarys.edu> wrote:

> Wow. Never heard that one. We have Mac OS X clients with nary a
> complaint about DNS.
>
> Are you certain the DNS text box is empty? No blank characters even?
>
> Other than making sure the OS is up to date (rather difficult without
> a DNS...), I can't think of anything else offhand.
>
> At 12:37 PM -0600 12/4/03, Dan Bongert wrote:
> >We're testing a Netreg 1.3rc2 installation for our building. 95 or more
> >percent of our clients are Windows based, so I'm assuming everything there
> >should work ok. However, we do have a few Mac users, as well. During
> >testing, I discovered an interesting fact about Mac's DHCP abilities--they
> >don't pull the DNS server info from the DHCP server (at least under Mac OS
> >X). Am I missing something here? Obviously NetReg won't work unless the
> >DHCP clients are getting the bogus DNS server info, right? 

-- 
Dan Bongert                     dbongert@ssc.wisc.edu
SSCC Unix System Administrator  (608) 262-9857
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