MONZ wrote: > Sure, but the .10 is a dhcp-client, and I haven't got around to use DDNS > yet. So just use 10 IN PTR dyn10.onscreen.zzz. and dyn10 IN A 192.168.1.10 > AFAIK it shouldn't be nessesary to har DNS entries for all clients, > just to use services like Samba. It is quite common for networking daemons to reject any connections for which they cannot resolve and verify[1] the remote hostname. Anything which provides domain-based access control (e.g. tcpd, TCP-wrappers (libwrap)) is likely to behave this way. [1] The domain obtained from the reverse lookup on the client's IP address must have an A record with that IP address. -- Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org