Get_Hostbyname: Unkown host with Samba
 

Hi, I am running Slackware 7.0 and I installed Samba 2.0.5 from source. Everything went ok with the ./configure, make, make install - smb.conf looks is:

# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from fw-2.phx3.fw.mindspring.net (199.174.119.232)
# Date: 2001/07/19 08:06:43

# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
security = user
[test]
path = /export/samba/test

My etc/hosts is:

# For loopbacking.
127.0.0.1 localhost
myActual IP Address host.domain.com

# End of hosts.

I run ./testparm sbm.conf and get the following:

Load smb config files from smb.conf
Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host host
Failed to get my hostname.

Do I need something more in smb.conf? Also, I can't tell why testparm is only giving me back just the host and not the rest when reporting this error, is that normal?

any suggestions?
thx

In /etc/hosts you also want just the name of you machine. For example That way if you just try to lookup the host without reference to the full domain it'll still be happy.

HTH

Jamie...

type hostname

this should return your hostname

if it is not set you need to put it into your network file

mine is in /etc/sysconfig/

right on! that did it.
sorry to post a reply but just wanted to say thx --- ALOT.