Andrew - and others,
Thanks for this.
The problem is that all Internet connections are fine, so no DNS problem
there.
It is entirely my internal network, and this one SuSE VM. All the other
VM's work fine!
If I ping internal machines from SuSE on my internal network, on each
occasion I get, "Unknown host hostname"
I can ping the machine from Windows, but only using IP address
It would seem that SuSE has no way of sorting out name / I address!
Any further ideas please?
Thanks for the tips about repositories.
Ed
Andrew Wafaa wrote:
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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