Andrew,
Thanks for this.
My Firewall is off, but I made that suggested change - no change!
Under "Host Name and Server Configuration" I have:
Hostname - suselinux
Domain Name - site Should this not be the workgroup that I am in -
i.e. WORKGROUP
I have the option to change Host Name via DHCP which is unchecked.
The rest of that panel is greyed out, but Nameserver1 is in as the IP
address of the ADSL router/DHCP server, and Domain search1 is in as
"localdomain"
The last tick-box is selected, "Update Name Servers and Search List via
DHCP" If I un-tick this the greyed area is accessible.
Does this help?
Thanks
Ed
Andrew Ratigan wrote:
Sounds like netbios is not resolving names by broadcast, or the SUSE
firewall is getting in the way
Have you tried it with the firewall disabled?
On my system (SUSE 10) the YAST, Firewall Configuration: Broadcast, the
settings are:
Internal zone = <blank>
De-mil.. zone = <blank>
External zone = netbios-ns netbios-dgm
I can browse my local windows network with no problems, using netbios names
and IP addresses in Konqueror, but for some reason, ping is very pedantic,
and will not work with netbios names (or maybe it is because I do not have
a WINS server)
Yours
Andrew
At 18:50 02/10/06 +0100, you wrote:
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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