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On Tuesday 14 June 2005 02:29, Greg Wallace wrote:
Is that IP address a valid internal one? Could that be the cause of the problem?
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How do I tell if it's a valid one? I know 127.0.0.1 is valid:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:8699 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:8699 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:2750512 (2.6 Mb) TX bytes:2750512 (2.6 Mb)
Jerome
Take a look at your /etc/samba/lmhosts file. Normally, 127.0.0.2 will be in there with the name of your machine (and 127.0.0.1 will be there with there as "localhost", which I believe is called the "loopback" ip address). For some reason, I commented out 127.0.0.2, but I can't remember why. 127.0.0.1 is still uncommented.
Greg Wallace
file:/etc/samba/lmhosts # This file provides the same function that the lmhosts file does for # Windows. It's another way to map netbios names to ip addresses. # # See section 'name resolve order' in the manual page of smb.conf for # more information. 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.2 is not in the file. Jerome