Host name problems

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at pcug.org.au
Thu Oct 4 04:44:05 GMT 2001


Bob Bomar wrote:
> 
> I am haveing problems when i run the smbclient.  Here is the output:
> 
> flyawaycentral# ./smbclient -U% -L flyawaycentral.com
> Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host flyawaycentral.com
> Failed to get my hostname.
> Added interface ip=192.168.1.101 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> 
> Added interface ip=192.168.1.102 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> 
> Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host flyawaycentral.com
> Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host flyawaycentral.com
> Connection to flyawaycentral.com failed
> 
> What did I do wrong and can anybody help me.
> I am running FBSD 4.3 and a WIN98 machine.

This isn't a samba problem.  flyawaycentral.com doesn't exist as an A
(host) record, only as an MX record.  Did you want
www.flyawaycentral.com?  

Andrew Bartlett

-- 
Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at pcug.org.au
Samba Team member, Build Farm maintainer        abartlet at samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
http://samba.org     http://build.samba.org     http://hawkerc.net




More information about the samba mailing list