Samba won't dance (more info)

[Tim]

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 17:53 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> Copy the contents of /etc/hosts into /etc/samba/lmhosts, re-start
> samba, leave it a while, then try again. 

Umm, no.  Not exactly...

The hosts and lmhosts file have different formats.  You could copy the
same hostnames and IPs into the lmhosts file, but I found it easier to
configure Samba to use normal DNS style resolution, rather than have yet
another file to configure (the lmhosts file).

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