Network Name...dun dun dun...DOESN'T EXIST!

[rabbit]

root@Paradise#
spencer@Paradise$

Yet..

Where is it?

[Joe]

Get samba.

[rabbit]

I'm asking for help, not useless comments.

[Sidoh]

I'm asking for help, not useless comments.

Installing Samba actually might help ...

[rabbit]

"Get samba" provides one piece of information: something is called 'samba'.  There is no description of what it is, where to get it, or what to do with it.  That was a useless post.

[Sidoh]

"Get samba" provides one piece of information: something is called 'samba'.  There is no description of what it is, where to get it, or what to do with it.  That was a useless post.

It seems you're forcing me to state the obvious.  Useless implies that something has absolutely no use in said subject.  Joe's post suggested that you get Samba.  Given that you could type "Samba" into google and quickly learn its use, I don't think his post was useless at all.

[iago]

Get Samba. 

Your router, I'm guessing, pulls the NetBIOS hostname.  NetBIOS is a Windows thing,which can be emulated by Samba.  If you'd installed Samba in the first place, like Joe said, your problem would be solved. 

Google is your friend

[rabbit]

I have Samba.  But what now?  There is no "samba" program.  There is xfsamba4, but that's for xfce.  The info on Samba I can find is entirely about what it is, a run-down of the protocols, history of its existence, etc.., but not a "How to use it" guide.

[Sidoh]

I have Samba.  But what now?  There is no "samba" program.  There is xfsamba4, but that's for xfce.  The info on Samba I can find is entirely about what it is, a run-down of the protocols, history of its existence, etc.., but not a "How to use it" guide.

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=samba&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Samba -- Opening Windows to a Wider World
The official SAMBA site. Provides links to mirrors.
www.samba.org/ - 6k - Cached - Similar pages

http://us5.samba.org/samba/

Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that has, since 1992, provided file and print services to all manner of SMB/CIFS clients, including the numerous versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems. Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License.

http://us5.samba.org/samba/ftp/samba-latest.tar.gz

[Eric]

I'm curious as to why you're willing to go to such lengths just to have your host name show up on a Windows-based router.

[iago]

I'm curious as to why you're willing to go to such lengths just to have your host name show up on a Windows-based router.

I was wondering the same thing.  The last time somebody wanted to know, I just said not to bother

There's probably a startup program to run Samba.  /etc/rc.d/rc.samba perhaps?  I don't use Samba myself, I try to avoid Windows hardware.

[Newby]

I could see why. OCD.

Haha, now I have your MAC addressses. Time to spoof my MAC as yours and syn flood www.fbi.gov!

[iago]

I could see why. OCD.

Haha, now I have your MAC addressses. Time to spoof my MAC as yours and syn flood www.fbi.gov!

Your MAC address never gets past a router.  It changes on every pair of routers that a packet travels through.  The people at the end never know what the original MAC was. 

Just thought I'd point out your little flaw..

[Newby]

I could see why. OCD.

Haha, now I have your MAC addressses. Time to spoof my MAC as yours and syn flood www.fbi.gov!

Your MAC address never gets past a router.  It changes on every pair of routers that a packet travels through.  The people at the end never know what the original MAC was. 

Just thought I'd point out your little flaw..

You could spoof the MAC on your router? That's kinda what I meant. =P

I actually just learned that while reading up on NAT in pf in Arizona.

[Eric]

I could see why. OCD.

Haha, now I have your MAC addressses. Time to spoof my MAC as yours and syn flood www.fbi.gov!

Your MAC address never gets past a router.  It changes on every pair of routers that a packet travels through.  The people at the end never know what the original MAC was. 

Just thought I'd point out your little flaw..

You could spoof the MAC on your router?

Then the next router that receives the Ethernet frame will replace your spoofed MAC address with its own.  WAN's don't generally even transmit data over Ethernet; it's most commonly done over ATM which uses a different form of physical addressing.  The information within an Ethernet frame (source and destination MACs, for example) are only of any use on the local network segment.

[Newby]

Aww, lame.

[rabbit]

I could see why. OCD.

Haha, now I have your MAC addressses. Time to spoof my MAC as yours and syn flood www.fbi.gov!

Newby 1, Everyone else 0

[Sidoh]

I could see why. OCD.

Haha, now I have your MAC addressses. Time to spoof my MAC as yours and syn flood www.fbi.gov!

Newby 1, Everyone else 0

Read the rest of the posts after that.  You'll see it'd be useless to spoof his MAC address as one of ours.

[rabbit]

I was stating scores in regard to OCD.

[Joe]

I'm curious as to why you're willing to go to such lengths just to have your host name show up on a Windows-based router.

In my case, I have a dynamic internal IP address. Having "deadmeat" be accessable to my Windows box which is in the DMZ (I'm well aware of the security risks, but I don't have anything else to put there) and responsible for port forwarding (for httpd, mainly) is much, much easier than running upstairs and setting up the port forward information to send it to a new IP address.

[Newby]

I could see why. OCD.

Haha, now I have your MAC addressses. Time to spoof my MAC as yours and syn flood www.fbi.gov!

Newby 1, Everyone else 0

Read the rest of the posts after that.  You'll see it'd be useless to spoof his MAC address as one of ours.

He means I got it right that he's OCD about it.

[Sidoh]

He means I got it right that he's OCD about it.

Corrupted, slanderous lies.

[deadly7]

I was stating scores in regard to OCD.

[Sidoh]

I was stating scores in regard to OCD.

Corrupted, slanderous lies.

[rabbit]

Sidoh, you're just plain wrong...

[Eric]

I'm curious as to why you're willing to go to such lengths just to have your host name show up on a Windows-based router.

In my case, I have a dynamic internal IP address. Having "deadmeat" be accessable to my Windows box which is in the DMZ (I'm well aware of the security risks, but I don't have anything else to put there) and responsible for port forwarding (for httpd, mainly) is much, much easier than running upstairs and setting up the port forward information to send it to a new IP address.

Give yourself a static IP address?

[Sidoh]

Sidoh, you're just plain wrong...

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the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"
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[Joe]

I'm curious as to why you're willing to go to such lengths just to have your host name show up on a Windows-based router.

In my case, I have a dynamic internal IP address. Having "deadmeat" be accessable to my Windows box which is in the DMZ (I'm well aware of the security risks, but I don't have anything else to put there) and responsible for port forwarding (for httpd, mainly) is much, much easier than running upstairs and setting up the port forward information to send it to a new IP address.

Give yourself a static IP address?

Are you saying I'm too stupid to have tried that? Please...

[rabbit]

Samba works, partly.  Here's what's up:
Lili - sister's computer, can access just fine
Paradise - can't access from Samba (even though I'm on it); still doesn't show up as named in base station manager
Attic - could access it with old Samba, can't after update
Laptop - can't access at all from Samba

[Eric]

I'm curious as to why you're willing to go to such lengths just to have your host name show up on a Windows-based router.

In my case, I have a dynamic internal IP address. Having "deadmeat" be accessable to my Windows box which is in the DMZ (I'm well aware of the security risks, but I don't have anything else to put there) and responsible for port forwarding (for httpd, mainly) is much, much easier than running upstairs and setting up the port forward information to send it to a new IP address.

Give yourself a static IP address?

Are you saying I'm too stupid to have tried that?

No.  Too "stupid" to have done it successfully, perhaps.

[Eric]

Paradise - still doesn't show up as named in base station manager

smb.conf:

Code: [Select]

netbios name = <name>

[Joe]

I'm curious as to why you're willing to go to such lengths just to have your host name show up on a Windows-based router.

In my case, I have a dynamic internal IP address. Having "deadmeat" be accessable to my Windows box which is in the DMZ (I'm well aware of the security risks, but I don't have anything else to put there) and responsible for port forwarding (for httpd, mainly) is much, much easier than running upstairs and setting up the port forward information to send it to a new IP address.

Give yourself a static IP address?

Are you saying I'm too stupid to have tried that?

No.  Too "stupid" to have done it successfully, perhaps.

When you finally get done messing with VB and realize Linux is better, write a guide on how to do this please. Otherwise, don't act like you're better than me just because your an adult.

[Newby]

When you finally get done messing with VB and realize Linux is better, write a guide on how to do this please. Otherwise, don't act like you're better than me just because your an adult.

You realize I'd wager that Lord knows more about BSD/Linux than you do? =P

[Warrior]

I'm curious as to why you're willing to go to such lengths just to have your host name show up on a Windows-based router.

In my case, I have a dynamic internal IP address. Having "deadmeat" be accessable to my Windows box which is in the DMZ (I'm well aware of the security risks, but I don't have anything else to put there) and responsible for port forwarding (for httpd, mainly) is much, much easier than running upstairs and setting up the port forward information to send it to a new IP address.

Give yourself a static IP address?

Are you saying I'm too stupid to have tried that?

No.  Too "stupid" to have done it successfully, perhaps.

When you finally get done messing with VB and realize Linux is better, write a guide on how to do this please. Otherwise, don't act like you're better than me just because your an adult.

LMAO!!!!!!

[Eric]

I'm curious as to why you're willing to go to such lengths just to have your host name show up on a Windows-based router.

In my case, I have a dynamic internal IP address. Having "deadmeat" be accessable to my Windows box which is in the DMZ (I'm well aware of the security risks, but I don't have anything else to put there) and responsible for port forwarding (for httpd, mainly) is much, much easier than running upstairs and setting up the port forward information to send it to a new IP address.

Give yourself a static IP address?

Are you saying I'm too stupid to have tried that?

No.  Too "stupid" to have done it successfully, perhaps.

When you finally get done messing with VB and realize Linux is better

I wasn't aware that Linux was a programming language.

[Newby]

I wasn't aware that Linux was a programming language.

The fuck is wrong with you? I code Linux and BSD all day.

[iago]

When you finally get done messing with VB and realize Linux is better

I wasn't aware that Linux was a programming language.

VB is a programming language and Linux is a platform that doesn't support it.  There isn't a problem there. 

[Eric]

When you finally get done messing with VB and realize Linux is better

I wasn't aware that Linux was a programming language.

VB is a programming language and Linux is a platform that doesn't support it.  There isn't a problem there. 

Perhaps not if he would have worded it that way, but he didn't.  You did.

Anyways, my current Linux skill level aside, setting your computer up to use a static IP address is no difficult task, definately not a task requiring a tutorial to be made.  IIRC, it's done through /etc/sysconfig/network/, but I may be mistaken.

[Joe]

But I'd say you're noone to judge which operating system I should be using.

[rabbit]

I say everyone stfu and gtfo if you're not going to help.  This discussion does not belong in a REQUEST FOR HELP THREAD.

Thank you.

[Sidoh]

Please... LoRD transcended the mind of a simple Visual Basic programmer at the moment of conception.

[Newby]

Anyways, my current Linux skill level aside, setting your computer up to use a static IP address is no difficult task, definately not a task requiring a tutorial to be made.  IIRC, it's done through /etc/sysconfig/network/, but I may be mistaken.

The hell kind of distro are you using? Either Slackware isn't standard or that's not standard.

[Eric]

Anyways, my current Linux skill level aside, setting your computer up to use a static IP address is no difficult task, definately not a task requiring a tutorial to be made.  IIRC, it's done through /etc/sysconfig/network/, but I may be mistaken.

The hell kind of distro are you using? Either Slackware isn't standard or that's not standard.

Red Hat.

[Newby]

Figured so. Weird.

[iago]

Perhaps not if he would have worded it that way, but he didn't.  You did.

Anyways, my current Linux skill level aside, setting your computer up to use a static IP address is no difficult task, definately not a task requiring a tutorial to be made.  IIRC, it's done through /etc/sysconfig/network/, but I may be mistaken.

It's different on every distro.  Slackware's resides in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf. 

The only reasonably constant way across most Linuxes/Unixes is
ifconfig <address> netmask <netmask> broadcast <broadcast>