Re: [Unattended] Unattended Dealing with IPs (fwd)

[Jose Diaz]

Gareth, I think there are two solutions for your problem: 1. Make sure you have the samba nmbd daemon running. Also create an LMHOST file for samba. Make sure there is an entry for the server hosting the unattended share in LMHOSTS. If you modifiy LMHOSTS, restart nmbd. 2. If the above solution does not work, You will need to add entries to the LMHOSTS file in the ** bootdisk ** . That is, you will need to regenerate the bootdisks. After you expand the Unattended distribution file (unattended-version.tar.gz) , You will find the LMHOSTS file under the directory bootdisk\template\net. Edit LMHOSTS as you see fit and then type make in the directory bootdisk. This will regenerate the images and the boot disk, then test. A quick way to test without regenerating the bootdisk, would be to write one of the image files from your current the CD (the one for your network card) to a floppy and then modify the file. BTW, with the current setup (versions 3.4 and up) you will need to expand the image with gunzip before writing to the floppy. I know these instructions are not exactly a Tutorial, but hopefully you will get the idea. Gareth Budge wrote: Hi Pat, We have internal DNS servers which are delivered to clients via the DHCP server. Any client looking for an IP via DHCP will recieve these DNS server server IPs. I simply added an entry in our zone files for the LAN and refreshed the DNS tables. From there I could type: \\dvrinst\install and gain access to the share. I tried both with a username and password set, and without. I tried to add an entry into the /etc/hosts file as the RH9 distribution I had on the machine hosting the Win2k install and unattended files did not have an lmhost/s file. I did try to restart the network services on the machine prior to testing in Windows, but either wayit didn't work. I assumed this had something to do with the machine advertising itself to the WINS server which I didn't really have the time to wait aroudn for, hence the reason I went with the entry in the DNS server. THe only thing I can think of to try now would be to forcably create and lmhost/s file and restart the network services on the machine, or to try with a Windows machine. Any assistance would be great. Cheers, Gareth PS. I am really happy with the level of support from this community. I did fear it would be another linux "RTFM" list, but to my joy it was the exact opposite. Congrats!! :-) On 12 Dec 2003, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: "Gareth Budge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hello, Okay well I have tried the suggestion and I am able to access the share via Windows doing \\dvrinst\install however it comes back with the same error when doing it from the bootdisc image. Which suggestion did you try? Can you please advise me on what I can do to correct this? You are the first person to report this problem, so I need more details. What did you do, exactly, to get \\dvrinst\install to work from Windows? - Pat ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info