Hi, Newbie here. I'm having problems with seeing the hostname of a Linux box correctly under Samba with smbstatus.
Background: I'm running sarge with Samba 3.0.5 on a server that I built. It sits on our local network behind a Smoothwall firewall, which functions as a virtual nameserver using our ISP's DNS servers for resolution. I've been able to set up our Windows machines without too much problem with the Debian Samba server as a PDC. I'm now trying to connect a Mepis (Debian sid) box to the server using Samba. Problem: When I login to a Mepis user session, the share is mounted in a user directory (set up with smb4k). However, smbstatus shows only the IP address of the machine, not the hostname. The Windows machine hostnames show up correctly. I've changed /etc/hosts on the client, server, and firewall/nameserver machine to include the IP-name; nsswitch.conf maps host to DNS. smb.conf has "name resolve order" parameter set to "host wins lmhosts bcast". I'm not specifying a WINS server, but have configured "wins support" to yes. I also have Mandrake 10 and SuSE 9.1 triple-booting with the Mepis partitions and while they also connect as Samba clients, I have the same result -only the IP shows up. Any ideas? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
