Gethostbyaddr failed
Gerald Carter
gcarter at valinux.com
Thu Jun 29 18:23:46 GMT 2000
John Kuhn wrote:
>
> can someone with more samba knowledge then me tell me
> what this means in my log file?
>
> [2000/06/28 16:37:31, 1] lib/util_sock.c:client_name(997)
> Gethostbyaddr failed for 192.168.0.1
Most likely that 192.168.0.1 is not in /etc/hosts or in DNS
(which it shouldn't be in DNS anyways unless you have a
local, isolated DNS server) or you don't have
/etc/resolv.conf configured correctly on your Samba server).
Cheers,
jerry
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