The only problem I see in your /etc/hosts is that the first entry,
127.0.0.1, should be "localhost", not the same name(s) as you use with the
host's (probably) eth0 interface, 192.168.0.1 .
That's probably not your problem here, though -- the sendmail delay is
probably from sendmail looking for a BIND-style DNS server. What entries do
you have in /etc/resolv.conf? Are they reachable when the system is booting
(or do they, for example, require a ppp connection that does not become
active until after the boot process completes)?
I'm not sufficiently familiar with Samba to help there, but my *hunch* is
that the problem is similar to the sendmail one, that is, that smbd &/or
nmbd can't make a needed connection and keeps trying until it times out.
Perhaps someone more familiar than I with Samba can suggest the exact mechanism.
At 11:53 AM 8/31/99 -0400, Michael Stearne wrote:
>Hi,
>I think I messed up my /etc/hosts file and now when I start the computer
>it gets hung up on "starting sendmail", eventually ^C worked (or
>pressing all the keys) and then it get's stuck on "Starting SMB" and
>other things.
>
>How I have my /etc/hosts looking is like this:
>
>127.0.0.1 blaze blaze.digitaldomain
>192.168.0.1 blaze blaze.digitaldomain
>192.168.0.2 hplinux hplinux.hpdomain
>192.168.0.3 hpwin hpwin.hpdomain
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