[Samba] Change hostname from "localhost"

[Neil Muller]

Bjørn Næsby Nielsen wrote:

>OK I have tried what seems like every possible method, but the bloody thing
>just won't work. So I am asking for help from this list...
>
>I have set up RH7.3, using the out-of-the-box SMB configuration, having
>added only the name of my workgroup, and uncommented the allowed range of IP
>adresses (which match our LAN network's 192.168.1 ).
>
>The problem is, that when I use a PC to connect to my linux box, the
>hostname of my Samba Server is "localhost" which of course isn't acceptable
>since it already exist. I would like it to be "poweredge", and have tried
>changing the network host configuration accordingly, but I am uncertain how
>it should be done.
>
>This is how my host configuration looks like on the machine acting as Samba
>Server :
>
>IP                     Hostname                      Alias
>127.0.0.1          localhost.localdomain    localhost
>192.168.1.11    localhost                       poweredge
>
>  
>
In your hosts file try

 192.168.1.11          
poweredge                                           poweredge

Neil