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07-27-2003, 08:45 AM
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Distribution: red hat 9.0
Posts: 35
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simple samba and networking question
how to you change the name displayed when viewing computers from localhost, and how do you change the name displayed on the dhcp computer list on the router?
-Seriv
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07-27-2003, 11:08 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Distribution: RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, SUSE
Posts: 1,403
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I don't understand the question 
If you want to set the hostname for your system in RedHat,
you must edit the line HOSTNAME= in /etc/sysconfig/network. |
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07-28-2003, 09:42 AM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Distribution: red hat 9.0
Posts: 35
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now samba doesn't work
Thanks for the tip, but now that I have changed it samba doesn't work!!
-Seriv
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07-28-2003, 10:19 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Distribution: RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, SUSE
Posts: 1,403
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More information please.
Does the Samba server start ?
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07-28-2003, 10:33 AM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Distribution: red hat 9.0
Posts: 35
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server starts, client crashes
the server starts, I can read it from other computers, but I can not view other computers from the client.
-Seriv
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07-28-2003, 10:41 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Dec 2002
Distribution: Gentoo!
Posts: 1,153
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su into root and type
hostame *enter your hostname*
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07-28-2003, 10:50 AM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Distribution: red hat 9.0
Posts: 35
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Thanx, it works!!
still a 
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