Hi all,
I was directed by Luke to send to the samba digest. Hope someone can help.
Thanks.
p/s: Pls cc to chng@comm.mot.com
rgds,
choon
>
> hi choon,
>
> this is a standard issue that if you ask on the samba digest
> (samba@samba.anu.edu.au) you are likely to get about three replies to :-)
>
> i'm not answering too many questions at the mo: i have r.s.i.
>
> good luck!
>
> luke
>
> On Sun, 17 May 1998, Ng Choon Hooi wrote:
>
> > Hi Luke,
> > I couldn't find the way to post my message from the samba
h/page. I
> > got your address from the archive. Hope you can help me with the
> > following problem. I am trying to set up my samba on my slackware
linux,
> > so that I can file-share with my win95 machine. Apprently, I have the
> > following error mesg.
> >
> > With "interfaces = 192.168.0.2" in smb.conf
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > saturn:~# smbclient -L saturn
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host saturn.
> > Failed to get my hostname.
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host saturn.
> > No interface found for address 208.108.11.80
> > Added interface ip=208.108.11.80 bcast=208.108.11.255
> > nmask=255.255.255.0
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host saturn.
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host saturn.
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host. saturn
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host SATURN.
> >
> > With "interfaces = 192.168.0.2" in smb.conf
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > saturn:~# smbclient -L saturn
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host saturn.
> > Failed to get my hostname.
> > Added interface ip=192.168.0.2 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host saturn.
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host saturn.
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host. saturn
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host SATURN.
> >
> > "saturn" is that hostname of my linux machine. Its ip is
192.168.0.2.I
> > am not sure why it says Unknown host. saturn, though I can
> > ping/telnet/ftp to "saturn", both by hostname as well as by
ip addr. Do
> > you have any idea what could be the problem? When smbclient is
executed,
> > what files does it refer to anyway? Thank you.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Choon
> >
>
>
