On Tuesday 15 April 2008 20:12:28 Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 17:53 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Copy the contents of /etc/hosts into /etc/samba/lmhosts, re-start > > samba, leave it a while, then try again. > > Umm, no. Not exactly... > > The hosts and lmhosts file have different formats. You could copy the > same hostnames and IPs into the lmhosts file, but I found it easier to > configure Samba to use normal DNS style resolution, rather than have yet > another file to configure (the lmhosts file). > What exactly do you mean by 'normal DNS style'? I did forget to say 'remove the aliases'. Copying across and editing made sure that I got everything over. Anne
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