making Samba work [not yet, it turns out]

[Claude Jones]

On Friday 05 August 2005 10:41 am, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> I must confess that I somehow beginning to loose the track. As suggested
> in my other reply it may be wise to start from scratch with a small,
> limited setup. To change things here and there can only lead to success
> by chance.
> Anyway, did you ever tell us about how you realized the DNS setup within
> your home network? As I tried to explain in past, if you call a host
> with it's short hostname, the search entry in resolv.conf is used to
> make it a FQDN. If that leads to a resolving name in public internet,
> then that address will be used. I have the impression a cause of all
> your problems might be a broken name resolving setup. You should too
> check whether you run nscd. That service will cache.

If you think I'm confusing you, think about what's going on in my own 
brain ;-)
DNS setup is the black hole in my knowledge - I started reading up on it this 
am, but I had to leave for work. I did stumble upon nscd in my reading this 
morning, but I'd just started reading up on it before I had to leave. 

-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA