renaming my linux box

[Yang Xiao]

You are right, my mistake. BTW, in addition to the /etc/hosts file, you also
need to change the /etc/sysconfig/network file

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SoftCell [mailto:jake.pronk at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 9:40 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: renaming my linux box
> 
> 
> if you change the name in samba it will only effect the host 
> and an erro will pop up when you reboot. you will need to 
> change the /etc/hosts file to rename your linux box
> 
> On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:18:54 +0200, Alexander Dalloz 
> <alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> > 
> > Am Do, den 01.07.2004 schrieb Yang Xiao um 15:01:
> > 
> > > Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and modify the line that says 
> server string 
> > > = My Big Fat Fedora Box
> > 
> > > Yang
> > 
> > That would only change the description string, not the netbios name 
> > itself. First he should take care that /etc/sysconfig/network 
> > HOSTNAME=something_else_than_localhost has set. And then if 
> he likes 
> > he can set in the smb.conf "netbios name = foobar", else 
> the netbios 
> > name is automatically the hostname.
> > 
> > Alexander
> > 
> > 
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