On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Rajko M. wrote:
On Sunday 18 October 2009 05:59:57 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: ...
in /etc/hosts make sure 192.168.1.231 points to sles11
i added that, but it appeared to make no difference, ...
Is there difference when firewall is off?
argh. yes, there is. i really should have thought of that. but let me clarify something. originally, this worked: # nmblookup -A 192.168.1.231 from that same host. now, i removed this line from /etc/hosts: 192.168.1.231 sles11 and, after stopping the firewall, this works: # nmblookup sles11 querying sles11 on 192.168.1.255 192.168.1.231 sles11<00> # so, from the above, i'm assuming that the name resolution is being handled by a netbios broadcast request on the local network, and it is the same host that is answering its own request. and since i don't assign "sles11" as the official netbios name in smb.conf, i assume that netbios is using the regular hostname as the netbios name. does all that make sense? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org