[SGVLUG] stupid newbie questions

[K. Zachary Abbott]

Thanks for the further explanation!

I did update my DNS servers as well...

Now I'm running into a new issue - while I can still log on as root, I 
can not log in using any of my non-privileged accounts.  I even tried 
deleting and re-creating these accounts, to no avail...very odd...


Emerson, Tom wrote:
>> -----Original Message----- Of K. Zachary Abbott
>>
>> Since there was no reference to my "old" name in the smb.conf file, 
>> there was nothing there for me to change, but I think 
>> changing the Hosts file under /etc did the trick.
>>     
>
> Right.  As the man page stated:
>
>   
>>> -------------------------------
>>> netbios name (G) [...] By default it is
>>> the same as the first component of the host's DNS name. 
>>>       
>
> I suspect your smb.conf file does not have a "netbios name=" line (or it
> begins with a "#", thus making it a comment) so Samba is using your
> hostname variable when it advertises itself to other systems.
>
> Linux/Unix systems are highly "network aware" -- networking for MS
> windows systems was an add-on.  As such, the "fully qualified domain
> name" or FQDN, is the host AND domain name as a single unit, represented
> with "dots" betweeen the elements.  "the Internet" (with a capital I)
> would have been a mess without this concept -- in fact, in the really
> early days, the (single-tasked) computer assigned to be the web server
> was commonly named just "www", hence the common "name" applied to
> everyone's website...  (you didn't HAVE to call your machine "www", but
> if you didn't, very few people would ever "find" you -- of course,
> nowadays that might be a good thing...)
>
> [in your response to Michael]
>
>   
>> I don't care about the GUI; I was simply stating that as a Windows 
>> admin, I knew how to do this on a Windows box, and the change 
>> in the one spot changes everything else.
>>     
>
> In general, "/etc" is "the one spot" to change things on a Linux system
> to control how it relates to the rest of the world.  At the end user
> level, however, things get murky since it appears individual window
> managers (kde, gnome, windowmaker, etc.) will have per-user
> configuration areas in different places...
>
> Of course, this change ONLY covers what the machine knows of itself --
> if you have a DNS server ("bind", actually...) you may have to change
> the datafiles for that server so that it advertises the new name
> correctly.  If you're using a combination of bind and dhcp(d), then they
> might actually use what you've configured on the workstation when
> advertising to the rest of the network.  (which is inherently true of
> NMB, or the network-naming component of SMB, as the workstation "tells"
> the browse master what it's  own name is and the master then replicates
> it to clients upon request)
>
>
>
>   

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