making Samba work [not yet, it turns out]

[Claude Jones]

On Friday 05 August 2005 9:50 am, Claude Jones wrote:
> I don't have a problem with giving StudyPC a fixed IP. It's a permanent
> box. I'm just hell-bent on trying to understand why this is happenning. I
> did restart network services several times during all these trouble
> shooting sessions, so I don't think that's it. For some reason, when SMB
> does a look around the network, it's finding the StudyPC, but then it
> proceeds to do a DNS search on the internet for that name, instead of
> resolving it to the local IP address. I've spent so much time on this now,
> that I'm determined to figure out why this is happenning. Could this be
> something lingering in cache? 

The other thing I'm wondering, could this be something related to my dhcp.conf 
file? I found a reference to this possibility in a google search for a 
problem not unlike mine. 

-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA