Subject: Re: Samba?
To: None <Greg_Evans@condenast.com>
From: Bob Nestor <rnestor@augustmail.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/02/2000 17:02:17
Greg_Evans@condenast.com wrote:

>I should probably really be posting this to a samba list, but I figured 
>someone
>here might know the answer....
>
>I have set up samba on a 7300/180 as well as Appletalk...Appletalk works fine
>and shows up via the chooser on any Mac that I attempt to access it from.  
>Samba
>on the other hand _appears_ to quit with a gethostbyname: can not resolve 
>host
>name error

Do you have everything setup up in your /etc/hosts file or DNS if you're 
running local DNS?  I seem to recall a parameter in Samba which referred 
to doing Wins LAN name lookups via DNS.

I've successfully run Samba on mac68k and sparc, but in both cases I have 
a local DNS running.

-bob