Re: Connecting to Win 2K with Samba

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Bob Parry wrote:
> 
> I have a small home business network with one Win 2K one Win XP and
> one Red Hat 8.0 machine.  The Linux box can connect and share the
> printer on the XP machine.  However I can not connect to the Linux
> box from the Windows boxes.
> 
> The error I get is "Path not Found".  The Samba server appears in the
> Network Neighbour Hood but does not connect.
> 
> There is a Linksys DSL Router acting as DHCP server thing.  The names
> of the Windows boxes shows up on the DHCP list but the Linux box does
> not have a name.

Windows boxes will typically register their comptername to dhcp, RH will
typically not.

> 
> If this is the problem I have not been able to find the file where the
> Linux machine name resides.  I have added it to /etc/hosts on both
> Windows and Linux boxes.

For dhcp on RH, it's set in /etc/sysconfig/network - HOSTNAME=your host name

What's the RH console show for hostname? 





-tkb



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