On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:53:08PM +0000, oinkfreebiker@att.net wrote:
> Tried "hostname" and SWAT via Win98. Via SWAT I set
> everything Global to defaults, committed changes, and
> tried STATUS to start nmbd and smbd. I see msgs on
> the NetBSD laptop appear but smbd and nmbd report as
> "not running" on SWAT status.
> 
> So next I try Manuel's instruction and do...
> 
> # hostname
> 
> #
> 
> ...and that doesn't look right. Hope, pray, might
> this be it? What is that...

Ha yes, that's it. The hostname of your machine needs to be set, so that
nmbd can announce it to other computer (I think there is a smb.conf option
to override it).

Put your host name in /etc/myname and it will be set as root.
No need to reboot, type
hostname `cat /etc/myname`
as root and restart nmbd. It should now work !

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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