Hi Ed
Your hosts file
127.0.1.1 marvin - this line is completely useless [a fake address - you
can trash that line], this is what i would do
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain marvin
XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX marvin marvin.domain.local
where XXX is your ip address for that machine and marvin.domain.local is
whatever you call your local domain name - i.e. marvin.mynetwork.local
You can ignore marvin.domain.local if you don't have BIND installed or
similar!
I suspect you need to setup SAMBA or a WINS server. WINS and DNS are not
related; but these guys will help to resolve your NETBIOS addresses!
The link i supplied is a good walkthrough, but there are plenty of
examples on the ubuntu forum [these work for any debian mix]
Sounds like a good topic for discussion anyway, networking can be tricky!
I'll be at the next meeting anyhow - it's in my diary and very close to
Easter ...
j.
Edward Kerr wrote:
Thanks very much
Will have a full go at that tomorrow! But:
resolve.conf
Only entry is
nameserver 192.168.1.2 (Our router)
hostname
Only has name of my Linux PC in it - marvin
hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 marvin
I SUSPECT that the reference to 127.0.1.1 is a typo by me ages ago!
It should be 127.0.0.1 What do you think?
This would be a good topic for a PLUG meeting. It might help to
explain why I cannot ping servername under Linux, but it is OK under
Windows! (Not sure if it matters really, but it would be nice to
understand what is going on.
My router has a (very) basic DNS option but not sure if that will help
here. No reference to a WINS server in it anywhere.
Anyway, I will suggest for the next PLUG meeting - any takers for a
presentation, and heaps of daft questions from me? 25th March
Ed
substation wrote:
I would start checking your network settings in
resolve.conf
hostname
hosts
I suspect you need to run a SAMBA/WINS server but, if you do - check
that those settings don't conflict with your opendns [and as a result
they may have been switched off]
Also - check your logs for a MASTER BROWSER error, this will confirm
a network conflict [you can only have one master browser and they
fight each other]
*Try this [a nice easy read]:*
http://lucasmanual.com/mywiki/SambaDomainController#head-8ae23b786749b4d46ef0e9ed22148e63eeab95e7
That should fix it!
hope that helps
j
Edward Kerr wrote:
Sounds like a good idea to me, but how and where?
Sorry to be so thick!
Ed
substation wrote:
Check your NETBIOS settings across the network.
Edward Kerr wrote:
I have just implemented OpenDNS which means that I have switched
my router to use OpenDNS's DNS servers.
I have also set up an account with them that does things like web
filtering etc.
Everything works fine EXCEPT:
On my two Linux boxes (Ubuntu) I can no longer browse the windows
network network.
Windows machine respond the standard UNC names \\machinename\
Linux only now responds to IP addresses
I can mount in Linux if I use IP addresses.
Is this connected to the change in DNS server, or is something
else going on and what do I look for and where!?
Thanks everyone
Ed
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