[NTLUG:Discuss] argh! using nmbd for that stupid @home service

[Michael B. Lee]

HOW exactly did you manage to use their assigned name? I can't get it 
going. I know it's not my linux box or the eth card in it (I was using the 
same machine just fine today on another network, and was using that same 
card to receive a DHCP address.

But when I plug it into that cable modem, it won't dhcp anything off of it, 
most likely because it's not finding that silly NETBIOS name it's looking for.

I've tried renaming my hostname to the @home name, as well as:  nmbd -D -n 
[@home name]

Linux seems to take that line, but then I still can't bring eth0 up!!!!!!!!!

Help!!!!!!






At 06:05 PM 1/24/01 -0600, you wrote:
>When I had a cable modem, I had to use their assigned name initially to get
>things to connect.  Once an initial connection had been made, I changed the
>hostname to my domain name and it worked fine.
>
>On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:15:10AM -0600, Michael B. Lee wrote:
> > I just noticed something odd about AT&T's @home cable service. Unless it
> > finds the Windows computer name they assign you, it won't work. (Network
> > Neighborhood --> Identification --> Computer name).
> >
> > So, if I'm going to run my LINUX box over the cable service, how do I
> > replicate that computer name in LINUX? (Where do I configure it?). I'm
> > using the Red Hat 7.0 distribution, if that makes any kind of difference.
>
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