On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 22:12 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > 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. ---- man smb.conf see section 'name resolve order' As for LMHOSTS file...see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMHOSTS the format is decidedly different than a UNIX hosts file Craig
