Re: tlug: hostname setting of samba

[Tetsuji Rai <tetsuji@example.com>]

> >>>>> "Tetsuji" == Tetsuji Rai <tetsuji@example.com> writes:
> 
>     Tetsuji> setting had been working fine.  However, since I upgraded
>     Tetsuji> my linux from RH5.2 to Rh 6.0, I have a problem in
>     Tetsuji> executing sendmail daemon on booting.
> 
> Tetusji,
> 
> 	This sounds like a DNS problem. If you wait long enough, the
> DNS lookup will timeout and sendmail should continue. 
> 
> You can either fix your DNS, or prevent named from starting. You will
> probably find a symbolic link in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S55named to
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/named. remove the link and named ( DNS ) will not
> start. You'll want put your host name back to 10.0.0.1 for samba.
> 
>     Tetsuji> sendmail.  I suspected the hostname tetsu should be
>     Tetsuji> wrong, and changed the ip address to 127.0.0.1.  Now
>     Tetsuji> sendmail has no problem on booting.  However, this time
>     Tetsuji> samba has a problem.  smbclient -L tetsu gives correct
>     Tetsuji> information on Linux machine, however, it cannot be
>     Tetsuji> referred to from the yuki (Win98) as tetsu. 
> 
> Anything sent to 127.x.x.x is seen only on the local machine. Be
> convention, the address 127.0.0.1 is defined as "localhost" in
> /etc/hosts. 
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> 	Andy
> 
Thank you for your suggestion, but it still doesn't work even though named is 
disabled.  Actually my /etc/host.conf is already set to look at hosts first 
then look at bind.
   Any hists?

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