On Friday 04 October 2002 12:10 pm, you wrote:
> While installing Linux or setting up my network, I gave my linux server the
> same name as a computer I already had on my network. Does anyone here know
> how I can change the name of my computer so that the right name shows up
> when I use LinNeighborhood and Samba?
>
> Thanks for any help you can give.
>
> Eric Jackson
Start Menu>Configuration>Netconf [type the root password]>accept>Host name
and IP network devices {and there you are}.
Also check your /etc/samba/smb.conf file and change the netbios name there
and your other machines /etc/samba/lmhosts file should also contain your new
machine name--so should /etc/hosts. Also check the text file
/etc/sysconfig/network and be sure the hostname gets changed there, too.
e
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