Phil Brutsche writes:
> Samba won't necessarily work if you don't have the hostname pointing to
> the IP in /etc/hosts.
Are you saying that samba will may not work if you have both lines, like
this?
127.0.0.1 hasler.dhh hasler localhost
192.168.1.1 hasler.dhh h
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote:
ssahme >Could this be a case of the DHCP server treating Windows clients
ssahme >differently than non-Windows clients ? Majority of the DHCP clients at
ssahme >our place are Windoze boxes.
yes, if they are pointed at different DNS then anything is possible
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> Salman Ahmed writes:
> > What should I add to this file so I can ping from the machine itself by
> > giving its fqdn hostname ?
>
> 127.0.0.1 matrix. matrix localhost.
>
> With this line any process on the machine can reach the machine
Salman Ahmed writes:
> But the second line in /etc/hosts will have to be updated/modified
> whenever the DHCP lease for that IP address runs out.
If you have a proper localhost line in /etc/hosts you don't actually need
the IP of your interface in there at all.
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John Hasler
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Salman Ahmed writes:
> What should I add to this file so I can ping from the machine itself by
> giving its fqdn hostname ?
127.0.0.1 matrix. matrix localhost.
With this line any process on the machine can reach the machine itself via
the fqdn, the hostname, or just 'localhost'.
Phil Brutsche wr
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote:
ssahme >
ssahme >Whenever I try to ping this machine (from itself) by giving the
ssahme >fqdn hostname, I get an error message like:
ssahme >
ssahme > unknown host matrix.domain.com
ssahme >
ssahme >nslookup on that fqdn hostname gives an error message sayi
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> Some more questions: I seem to be getting the same IP address through
> DHCP.
That's the way it works - each time you reboot you get the same IP until
the lease time runs out.
> After the DNS config update, I can ping this machin
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote:
ssahme >I got one of the network admins to update their DNS config so that the
ssahme >hostname of the machine is mapped to the machine's ethernet address.
ok
ssahme >Some more questions: I seem to be getting the same IP address through
ssahme >DHCP. Afte
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote:
ssahme >how this work ? Will this approach require the network sysadmins to
ssahme >change their (internal) DNS configuration ? Our network admins know of
ssahme >only one OS: Windoze, and generally don't know d*** about
ssahme >Unix/Linux/*BSD, so I am a l
you could add a domain to a DNS in your local network so that works, or
what is probably easier is look for the lmhosts file on the windows box
(use find) it may be called lmhosts.sam or some shit, add the ip and the
names there, it seems to be window's version of /etc/hosts. you may have
to renam
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