>I am having difficulty with SUSE 10 accessing the network.  I can quite 
>happily browse my network if I use IP addresses.  If, however, I use 
>machine names as I would in Windows, it gives an error message saying, 
>"Could not connect to host  for smb://machine_name"

>What am I missing here?

Have there been any network changes, maybe wioth DNS or something?  Can you do 
a dig or nslookup for your target machine?

>Secondly, I am having difficulty sorting out SUSE repositories.  Many of 
>the ones I have report that they are unavailable.  This also means that 
>I am unable to add to my software as YAST cannot find them!

There seems to be a bit of a name resolution issue in general.  When you go to 
online update in YaST (YOU), take a note of the repository highlighted and try 
and ping/resolve it.  If you can't then you definately have a DNS issue.

>I noticed that there is the possibility of using apt-get,  but I am not 
>sure how to get that started or indeed if it is a good idea!

>Is there a list of up to date repositories that I can use, or does 
>anyone have a better idea?!

I used to use apt-get and synaptic, but I now use SMART for 
10/10.1/SLED10/SLES10.  have a look at 
http://www.forcev.net/?page/SMART_Repositories It's a bit of a simple guide to 
getting it working, but it works :P

Hope this helps a bit,

Andy

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Andrew Wafaa, RHCT
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