Sometime ago a change occured in my network responses for various requests. I have spent some time trying to track down the culprit. It happened around the time that I changed to phoebe 3 from 8.0 and added a second network card. I also turned on the dhcp server on my router for my laptop (for addresses starting 192.168.1.120 and all wired computers are static below this)
Symptoms: all addresses not found in dns are forwarded to my gateway (linksys router) ie. if i typed grroogle.com on accident instead of receiving an error it asks for my router password because it is trying to look at my gateway address. In samba my requests for a netbios name now don't work I must use the ip address. ie. smb://office doesn't work I must use smb://192.168.1.x This compounded to my difficulty installing a windows printer it kept saying that the samba host would not respond. I tried many different combinations in the definition of the server, share and ip address. After adding the netbios name to the /etc/hosts file it now works. I am not sure this is a good thing to do and I am sure it is not the intended way to accomplish what I want. Sorry about the organization here, since I am so puzzled I wanted to include all info I thought might help. thanks, -- Matt Whiteley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
