At 11:01 PM 2/4/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>Hello all.
>
>After upgrading to Mandrake 6.1, my Samba shares no longer work because
>Samba can no longer connect to the local host.
>
>The host name is shrdlu.net. However, if you type in uname -a, you get a
>host name of:
>
>.shrdlu.net
>
>Note the dot in front of the name. I think this is why Samba is having
>the problem.
you didn't set a hostname, just a domain....
it adds a dot in front of the domain.... make it shrdlu.shrdlu.net
if you want....
>Nothing in linuxconf or any of the configuration files in /etc put a
>period in front of the host name.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this?
>
>Chris Allen
