I am glad to see this one was answered. I had an almost irresistible impulse to
answer with the Microsoft Motto:
"Contact Your System Administrator"
Civileme
Stephen Carville wrote:
> Kevin Fife wrote:
> >
> > I have my linux computer on an company Win95/98/NT LAN. I need to give the
> > computer a name for Samba. Since I do not know the file names that I need to
> > modify in order change this, I use linuxconf.
> >
> > Under Networking, Basic host information, I have the host name as "kevin".
> > What should be the "Primary name + domain" for Adaptor 1? Our NT server has
> > all of the users in the XSELL domain.
>
> Just use "kevin" or whatever you call your machine in DNS. I will bet
> that XSELL is the NT authentication domain which is not (repeat NOT)
> the same as a DNS domain.
>
> (I usually avoid MS bashing but) If you think the above is confusing,
> just wait until you see what those bastards have done in NT5 with
> their Active Directory domains. Major confusion with DNS...
>
> --
> Stephen Carville
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> ----------------------------------------------------
> There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those
> who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less
> competition there.
> Indira Gandhi
