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Re: [MiNT] Samba client

Peter Slegg wrote:

On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 12:16:41 , Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:58 AM, m0n0 <ole@monochrom.net> wrote:

Am Dienstag, den 31.08.2010, 21:53 +0200 schrieb Peter Slegg
<p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>:


localhost is in there but defining another static host wouldn't help
samba when dhcp is active would it ?

At least it can help when getting messages like "host not found".


There should be a standard way to resolve your machines hostname to a
dynamic ip (generated by dhcp). I cant think what it is atm

Ole was right about your rtk0 hostname issue. Remember the rtk0 is the
interface name, to which an IP address (an therefore a hostname) is
bound..


Yes, I don't know why smb is using the ip name instead of the hostname.
I wondered if it should be read as <hostname>.<iface>


Samba is usually set up to query names using WINS rather than by using
the local system to find the IP address of a hostname through
gethostbyname.  This can be a big issue for Linux users, I wonder if
it's a similar issue we're having with MiNT?  I am on my way to setting
up for DHCP and Samba, so I'm suddenly quite interested in all this...

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 -- zoe