making Samba work [new detail]

[Paul Howarth]

Claude Jones wrote:
> Some progress: I deleted the lines you suggested from named.conf and I removed 
> the rndc.key from /etc, then created a symlink in /etc to the rndc.key file 
> in /var/named/chroot/etc
> 
> Now, I get the following when I restart named:
> 
> [root at viewridgeproductions2 ~]# service named restart
> Stopping named:                                            [FAILED]
> Starting named:                                            [  OK  ]
> [root at viewridgeproductions2 ~]#  
> 
> It can't stop the service, but it can start it now...

Does "rndc status" work?

> This hasn't cured the original problem which started this whole thread, but, 
> fixing broken things, even if only partially, is good ;-)

Do you still have "search com" in /etc/resolv.conf ?

Paul.