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.