How to find/change machine name

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 08:10 +0100, Bob Latham wrote:
> In article <200804291247.10870.cjones at levitjames.com>,
>    Claude Jones <cjones at levitjames.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday April 29 2008 10:07:36 am Bob Latham wrote:
> 
> > and offer you whatever desktops you've got installed as selections to
> > boot into - if you don't know what you've got, it's probably Gnome
> 
> Well Gnome is the only option other than default system session.
> 
> > > > snip............
> > >
> > > > gets you into the redhat firewall configuration utility if
> > > > you're not using any others such as Shorewall or Firestarter
> > > > Test each machine you want to participate in your network to
> > > > see if you can ping it from the others, and whether it can
> > > > ping the others... 
> 
> > do you know how to ping?
> 
> Yes. Well on everything except Linux it seems as when I just tried it I
> found it worked fine but I could not find a way to stop it pinging. Not
> even the escape key did anything. That just seem like being different for
> the sake of it even if it means being really awkward. In the end I quit
> the terminal and restarted it. I think that's stopped it but I'm not sure.
ctrl-c will stop ping.
> 
> > > I have now moved on a little but am now getting an error....
> > >
> > > SELinux AVC Denial - flashing banner I can't stop!!!!!
> 
> I've got rid of the flashing banner but not the problem.
> 
> > > SELinux is preventing the Samba daemon from reading user's
> > > home directories.
> 
> Any suggestions how to work out what I need to kill in SELinux to let me
> share a folder?
> 
> > What version of Fedora are you running? Bets are off 
> > if it's F9...
> 
> Looking at the iso file I downloaded as I cannot find any way to look this
> up inside the desktop, the file says "fedora-8-live-i686.iso". I expect
> that means Fedora 8.
> 
> > On the Selinux warnings, just click on the little star icon that 
> > should be appearing near your flashing error message - it should 
> > open up a window with some informative messages about the 
> > problem 
> 
> Yes, I've stopped the banner now and as I wrote earlier it says "SELinux
> is preventing the Samba daemon from reading user's home directories."
> 
> > and suggestions on commands to run to fix them
> 
> It seems to offer no suggestions about how to get around that.
> 
> > even Windows is complicated the first time you ever try to use 
> > it - Linux is takes a bit more tweaking but you should be able 
> > to get it - 
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> 
> Bob.
> 
> 
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