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Belisarius · 06-10-2005, 06:06 PM

Don't give them the name "localhost". The clients don't like it.

I'm not sure how it happened, but my Samba server got the hostname "localhost" - must have happened when I was messing around with DNS. Oddly enough my clients got confused when I tried to browse to "localhost".

06-10-2005, 06:06 PM	#1 (permalink)
Belisarius Java fanboy Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,161	I learned a lesson about PDCs Don't give them the name "localhost". The clients don't like it. I'm not sure how it happened, but my Samba server got the hostname "localhost" - must have happened when I was messing around with DNS. Oddly enough my clients got confused when I tried to browse to "localhost". __________________ GitS