Hello, I recently changed my hostname using the KDE networking configuration thing. It had been the default localhost. I updated my /etc/hosts file at gnome's prompting. Everything works fine except samba which can not access windows shares. Please help

I believe your problem is in the samba config file.

Open up

http://localhost:901/

Click on the globals tab and verify the workgroup name.

Then click on the status tab and click on Restart smbd - or - SU to root and

cd /etc/init..d
./smb restart

workgroup is correct but I still get the same problem.

should the workgroup be the one used by the other windows computers or the linux box's domain

Personally I would change the workgroup name of the windoz machine to match the linux machine. If the workgroups do not match, the machines will not see each other.

hmmm well the windows computers can see the linux box as ingramnet (linux's hostname) under the workgroup WORKGROUP. Still am unable to browse windows shares from linux though.

Both computers should be apart of the same workgroup.

Linux workgroup = ingramnet
Windows workgroup = ingramnet

Your /etc/samba/samba.conf should list workgroup as the following.

[global]
workgroup = INGRAMNET

If changes were made on the linux machine restart samba. If changes were made on the windows machine, reboot the windows machine.

After all that, mount windows machine using smbmount with the following.

smbmount //%computername/%drive /home/%YOU/%computername/%drive/ -o username=winusername%winpassword,fmask=644,dmask=755,uid=501,gid=501,ip=%address_of_computer,debug=0 ,workgroup=INGRAMNET

%computername = the window's computer name
%drive = the windows drive you want mounted, i.e. C
%YOU = your linux user name
winusername%winpassword = username%password on WINDOWS machine
%address_of_computer = i.e. 172.31.0.27 (the assigned IP)


Here is an example with the values filled in.

smbmount //WINMACHINE/C /home/echto/WINMACHINE/C/ -o username=echto%mypassword,fmask=644,dmask=755,uid=501,gid=501,ip=172.31.0.27,debug=0,workgroup=INGRA MNET

thanks I went ahead and changed back to localhost.localdomain and everything works fine. I will definetly try this if I need to change the hostname again.

Thanks

im having a similar problem. i can see my linux machine from windows, but machine name is 'localhost' and is causing problems. I was thinking of changing the hostname FROM localhost.localdomain to something else. any suggestions welcome
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