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.