On Friday 05 August 2005 12:15 pm, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > That's actually my housemate's machine. I haven't discussed that machine, > > because it's only using my firewall for routing to the interenet. There's > > no intention to network it locally. > > Ok, but hiding information could confuse ;) > Was a judgment call. Most of the time, I don't even see him because he only turns on that pc for a few minutes a day. Suggestion noted. > > Ok, it seems obvious that "studypc" is always resolved as "studypc.com" > which has a public reachable IP. > > $ host studypc.com > studypc.com has address 208.254.3.160 > > ...................................................... I would more focus on > the network (like DNS) than on the Samba / SMB part. Is more left over > than to get "StudyPC" act "normally"? > I think you're right. I shall continue my research on DNS when I get home. Is there a way to flush the DNS cache, and is there more than one cache, do you know? -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
