[Samba] Please review my smb.conf

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Sun Jan 3 09:23:23 UTC 2016


On 03/01/16 09:05, DavidA wrote:
> Hi Rowland
>
> Thanks for your reply.  I see:
>
> $ cat /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
> ::1             localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> ff02::1         ip6-allnodes
> ff02::2         ip6-allrouters
>
> 127.0.1.1       RPHS
>
> So I guess I should edit the hosts file and specify RPHS's fixed IP 
> address. I don't think domain name is relevant for a home network so I 
> won't specify one.  Will let you know how it goes.
>
> David
>
>

Sorry, but a dns domain is just as relevant for a home network as it is 
for a work network, please use one, you can make it up if you like, just 
don't use an existing one or one ending in '.local'

Rowland



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