Andreas and all...

HOSTS and RESLVCNF.NET.SYS both exist as we have been doing networking
stuff for quite some time.  We just set up the links to /etc/hosts and
/etc/resolv.conf.

Since we have DNS running, what other than the loopback do we need in
/etc/hosts?  Do we put the system name someplace, or only the ip address
 on the interface line?

Also, just to get this going, I'm not trying INETD.  We have it running
for Telnet, but I don't have the lines added for smb/nmb.  I *assume*
that this is not going to be a problem.

The other symptom which I didn't explicitly say is that jsmb dies just
quits after a minute or two.  It prints the log entries that I mentioned
in my original message listed below.


Since the log file error message is printing the beginning of our
domain, I did a quick search (grep) within the NET group and didn't turn
 up anything other then the resolv.conf file.

Other ideas?

/alan



Andreas said...
>
> HOSTS and RESLVCNF must exist in NET.SYS - did you check this ?
> A link from /etc/ to these files is helpful as well for INETD.
>
> Best regards, Andreas Schmidt, CSC, Germany

> Subject:  Samba Config help
>
>

Original message....from Alan
>
>
> Greetings -
> We are trying to install samba and are having a few problems.
> I think all the networking stuff is correct.  We have hosts.net
> (and it's posix name) with both a loopback and we added the local
> machine name.  We also have DNS set up and have been using it for
quite
> some time.
> The message we are getting in /SAMBA/PUB/var/log.smb is:
> Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host co.
> Added interface ip=10.1.8.248 bcast=10.1.15.255 nmask=255.255.240.0
> Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host. co
>
> "co" is the beginning of our domain name (co.frederick.md.us).  The
> machine name is "xl3".  I can't find anyplace other than /etc/hosts
and
> /etc/resolv.conf where these names would exist (other than dns).  And
> nslookups from our unix box seem to work fine so I don't suspect
> anything wrong with dns.
> We have inetd running, but we don't have this set up to run under
inetd.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks in Advance
> /alan
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