Hi, I'm having problems with seeing the hostname of a Linux box correctly under Samba with smbstatus.
Background: I'm running Debian sarge with Samba 3.0.5 on a server that I built. It sits on our local network behind a Smoothwall firewall, which functions as a virtual nameserver using our ISP's DNS servers for resolution. I've been able to set up our Windows machines without too much problem with the Debian Samba server as a PDC. I'm now trying to connect a Mepis (Debian sid) box to the server using Samba. Problem: When I login to a Mepis user session, the share is mounted in a user directory (set up with smb4k). However, smbstatus shows only the IP address of the machine, not the hostname. The Windows machine hostnames show up correctly. Here's smbstatus with forced user/group "yarg"/"domadm", Windows XP box "thais", and the Linux box: Samba version 3.0.5-Debian PID Username Group Machine ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3096 yarg domadm 192.168.1.8 (192.168.1.8) 2816 yarg domadm thais (192.168.1.10) I've changed /etc/hosts on the client, server, and firewall/nameserver machine to include the IP-name; nsswitch.conf maps host to DNS. smb.conf has "name resolve order" parameter set to "host wins lmhosts bcast". I'm not specifying a WINS server, but have configured "wins support" to yes. I also have Mandrake 10 and SuSE 9.1 triple-booting with the Mepis partitions and while they also connect as Samba clients, I have the same result -only the IP shows up. Any ideas? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
