[aclug-L] Re: Samba problems

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> Okay I finally fixed it.  Guess what it was...
>
> /etc/hosts on zeppelin had the wrong IP address.  It had the IP
> address that
> the machine had when it was on the LAN at work.  Now that the machine is
> here, it has a new IP... and so as a WINS server it was goofed up.
>
> I fixed that... all is well now.
>
> It's always the simple things!
>
> Anyway, thanks for the help. :-)
>

I'm glad you found it.  I've been down that road. There's so many little
things that need changed when you move a box from one network to another.
The worst part is when you move it to a new domain.  There's about a dozen
files that need changed depending on what services you are running.  I'm
still finding things wrong from when I moved from a "made up" domain to a
real one.  Many cause no real harm, it's just that the logs look screwy.
Others behave in unexpected ways because of this.  This is one place where I
can see a value in a central registry. Change the domain name in one place
and everything gets updated.


--dwh

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