Re: tlug: trouble in smb setting

[Tetsuji Rai <tetsuji@example.com>]

Thanks for suggestion.   The cause of trouble was that MailAndNews.com is not 
defined.   When my machine is connected via ppp, samba is working.  Thank you 
very much.

-Tetsuji Rai

> >Linux box is named tetsu, and Win98 is yuki.  A printer named "canon" is 
> >connected to tetsu and it is to be shared with yuki.
> 
> I set up something similar with this minimalist conf file:
> ---smb.conf------
> [global]
> guest account = ftp
> guest only=yes
> security=share
> workgroup=WORKGROUP
> 
> [CanonBJC]
> path = /var/spool/samba
> printable = yes
> guest ok = yes
> writable = yes
> printer name = lp
> ---------------
> 
> This assume the windows machine has the printer driver installed.
> 
> >Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host MailAndNews.com.
> >Failed to get my hostname.
> 
> I don't remember seeing errors like this. Does other networking work okay?
> Does your hosts file have entries for tetsu and yuki?
> 
> Darren
> 
> 
> 
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