On Sunday 21 Jul 2002 1:59 am, you wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >By now I am fairly convinced that my slow system problems are caused by > > yet another ooops in changing from the windows network to the linux one. > > > >When I installed I gave my machine a rather long name. The network > >configuration, however, has all been done as WORKGROUP, the windows > > network. I realise now that although it works, to a degree, it is almost > > certainly the cause of the problem. > > > >I edited the hosts and smb.config files to the long name, but when I went > > to change the windows machines I found that it would not accept a name so > > long, so I now have to about turn and change everything to a shorter name > > (I don't want to keep WORKGROUP). > > > >The problem is, I can't find where this original name is set. I can't > >believe that it can only be set at installation - everything else is > >accessible if you know where to look. Can anyone point me at the relevant > >file, please > > > >Anne > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > /etc/hosts (for local and other ) > > /etc/sysconfig/network > > You need to keep the 127.0.0.1 entries in /etc/hosts exactly as they are... > > Civileme
Thank you - although I had changed the computer name from the gui, the domain name was still set to the longer one. I have now corrected that. Can you think of any other files that may have remnants of the old incorrect setup? Anne
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