On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > When you say yours is called ASGARD, does that mean you named your linux > box ASGARD too?
No, my linux box is bolverk, and the windows machine is FRIGG. My workgroup is ASGARD ie. I have 'workgroup = ASGARD' in my smb.conf file. > So I have to edit /etc/hosts and the rest to rename my machine? Hmmm... Don't rename your machine unless you can't do a 'hostname' without getting '.'s in the name. At work, I do: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~/tinfly]$ hostname penguin1 So it doesn't return penguin1.glfc.forestry.ca which is good, that's what you want. > I like the intranet setup a lot. But I definitely need to learn SAMBA; so > do I have to rename my linux box, edit host files etc? Thanks... Yes, edit the host files. You should have an entry in your /etc/hosts and/or /etc/lmhosts for your windows box(en) (as explained in my HowTo) unless you are running a nameserver, then, you add entries for your clients to your nameserver. You may also find it of benefit to run a WINS setup, this will be covered in detail in a later version of my HowTo, but it's fairly straightforward from reading the SAMBA docs. HTH -Dano
