Samba on RedHat 9.0

I'm pretty much a Linux newbie, and I was hoping someone could help me out. I got the OS installed, running GNOME. I loaded the samba package, shared out a directory, AND changed to my windows WORKGROUP. I can actually see the machine from my windows machine as "samba server (localhost)". When i try to connect I get an error "\\localhost is not accessible... You were not connected because a duplicate name exists on the network."

Now... I figure its because on my Linux machine under network its name is LOCALHOST.LOCALDOMAIN, which is what it defaulted too. I can't change this without an error from Gnome when i log in to that machine.

Any suggestions would be great. Like I said I'm a newbie so I'm basically just changing things hoping it works.

Thanks all.

do you have any lines besides the following in your /etc/hosts file?

127.0.0.1 localhost

If thats it, try putting your IP and a fully-qualified domain name in there such as:

10.1.1.200 mymachine.mynetwork.com

Does the GNOME error go away?

Your host name and your netbios name don't have to be the same. You can set it in /etc/samba/smb.conf under the [global] section.

Code:

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[global]
  workgroup = yourworkgroup
  netbios name = namegoeshere
  ...

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I messed around a lot and got it working. I think it was a combination of my linux machine being named LOCALHOST which i changed. I also think it might have been issues with associating the correct windows user in samba.

BTW : RH 9.0, did away with SWAT (samba web access) and it has a client app to change settings... very handy.

Thanks for the advice.

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Originally posted by GrayCalx
I messed around a lot and got it working. I think it was a combination of my linux machine being named LOCALHOST which i changed. I also think it might have been issues with associating the correct windows user in samba.

BTW : RH 9.0, did away with SWAT (samba web access) and it has a client app to change settings... very handy.

Thanks for the advice.

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SWAT is still there, it just doesn't install it by default.

I've got some really good info/how-to stuff for Samba if you want it. PM me with an email address so that I can send it as an attachment if you are interested.