samba - Mar 2004 - Change hostname from "localhost"

OK I have tried what seems like every possible method, but the bloody thing
just won't work. So I am asking for help from this list...

I have set up RH7.3, using the out-of-the-box SMB configuration, having
added only the name of my workgroup, and uncommented the allowed range of IP
adresses (which match our LAN network's 192.168.1 ).

The problem is, that when I use a PC to connect to my linux box, the
hostname of my Samba Server is "localhost" which of course isn't
acceptable
since it already exist. I would like it to be "poweredge", and have
tried
changing the network host configuration accordingly, but I am uncertain how
it should be done.

This is how my host configuration looks like on the machine acting as Samba
Server :

IP                     Hostname                      Alias
127.0.0.1          localhost.localdomain    localhost
192.168.1.11    localhost                       poweredge

...and inside the "LMHOSTS" file, it reads:

127.0.0.1 poweredge
192.168.1.11 poweredge

somewhere along the line I must have messed things up...but the solution is
probably simple?

T.I.A.

Bjorn Nesby

Bj?rn N?sby Nielsen wrote:
>OK I have tried what seems like every possible method, but the bloody thing
>just won't work. So I am asking for help from this list...
>
>I have set up RH7.3, using the out-of-the-box SMB configuration, having
>added only the name of my workgroup, and uncommented the allowed range of IP
>adresses (which match our LAN network's 192.168.1 ).
>
>The problem is, that when I use a PC to connect to my linux box, the
>hostname of my Samba Server is "localhost" which of course
isn't acceptable
>since it already exist. I would like it to be "poweredge", and
have tried
>changing the network host configuration accordingly, but I am uncertain how
>it should be done.
>
>This is how my host configuration looks like on the machine acting as Samba
>Server :
>
>IP                     Hostname                      Alias
>127.0.0.1          localhost.localdomain    localhost
>192.168.1.11    localhost                       poweredge
>
>  
>
In your hosts file try

 192.168.1.11          
poweredge                                           poweredge

Neil