Re: [TCLUG:2631] Samba setup

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Quoting Richard Seymour (rseymour@anarchysoftware.com):
> What is in your /etc/hosts file? And on your Windows box, do you have
> c:\windows\hosts and c:\windows\lmhosts files? What's in them?

Do you run DNS?
> On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Paul & Paule Hocker wrote:
> > server. It seems like I have things setup correctly. However, whenever I do:
> > 
> > smbclient -L myserver
> > 
> > it just hangs there and does nothing. If is do:
> > 
> > smbclient -L 90.0.0.1
> > 
> > it works like it should. I can actuall assign drives on my Win98 box using:
> > 
> > net view y: \\90.0.0.1\tmp
> > 
> > but cannot use the actual server name.
> > 
> > I'm thinking that I have forgotten something in my smb.conf, or perhaps I
> > have my network setup incorrectly. Any ideas out there???

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