samba

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 18.11.2004 schrieb nowayout um 20:29:

> I have fedora core3. I configured samba to share files from windows.
> When i go to windows network places and trying to connect to fedora i
> get an error
> 
> ""\\Localhost is not accesible. You might not have permission to use
> this network resource and blah blah.. at the end say you are not
> connected because a duplicate name exists in the network. Go to System
> in Control Panel to change the computer name and try again"

"localhost" is no valid network name. Be sure both your Windows[tm] host
as well the Fedora host have valid NETBIOS names. The Fedora hostname
can be set using system-config-network.

Alexander


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