Hondaman900
11-27-2002, 01:05 PM
The name that appears on the network is my issue. My system installed with "localhost" as the default name, and I cannot change it. It is causing conflicts on my LAN (connected with Samba).
I have changed the server name in the etc/host file (so that now http://localhost doesn't work, it must be http://linuxhost which is the new name), and I have set the Samba name for the box to "Sambaserver", but the name "localhost" persists.
On my LAN I see the system listed as Localhost, and in detail form, as "Sambaserver (localhost)", where Sambaserver is the name assigned in the Samba config file. When RedHat boots up, I can see localhost.localdomain coming up in the login texts.
Anyone know how I can change this, It's driving me nuts? Until I change the name from localhost my Win systems cannot link to it as that name conflicts with IIS.
Help!
I have changed the server name in the etc/host file (so that now http://localhost doesn't work, it must be http://linuxhost which is the new name), and I have set the Samba name for the box to "Sambaserver", but the name "localhost" persists.
On my LAN I see the system listed as Localhost, and in detail form, as "Sambaserver (localhost)", where Sambaserver is the name assigned in the Samba config file. When RedHat boots up, I can see localhost.localdomain coming up in the login texts.
Anyone know how I can change this, It's driving me nuts? Until I change the name from localhost my Win systems cannot link to it as that name conflicts with IIS.
Help!