On Tue, 08 May 2007 12:32:05 -0500, George wrote:
> I'm trying to share a printer attached to my mandriva computer.
>
>>Configure your computer>sharing>setup a file and print sharing between
> Linux and Windows Machines brings up the following...
>
> You need to readjust your hostname. 'localhost' is not a correct hostname
> for a DNS server. Hostname must be a FQDN: Fully Qualified Domain Name

In order to not get into trouble, put .invalid on the end of your
domain name unless you have a registered domain. Example:
darkstar.myhome.invalid <==== domain name is myhome.invalid,
darkstar is the node


$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING_IPV6=no
GATEWAYDEV=eth0
GATEWAY=192.168.2.1
HOSTNAME=wb.home.invalid <======= FQDN
NEEDHOSTNAME=no
NETWORKING=yes

$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.2.1 fw.home.invalid fw
192.168.2.12 wb1.home.invalid wb1
192.168.2.30 wb.home.invalid wb <======= FQDN
192.168.2.60 scsi.home.invalid scsi
192.168.2.215 m2007.home.invalid m2007

Note: I recommend a reboot when changing node names.

On 2007-05-08, George wrote:
> I'm trying to share a printer attached to my mandriva computer.
>
> Configure your computer>sharing>setup a file and print sharing between
> Linux and Windows Machines brings up the following...
>
> You need to readjust your hostname. 'localhost' is not a correct hostname
> for a DNS server. Hostname must be a FQDN: Fully Qualified Domain Name
>
> I looked through 'man hostname' but it wasn't very clear to me on how to
> permanently change my hostname to a FQDN like mandrivabox.linuxdomain
>
> Please Please help me...I'm fallin...Please please..da da I say
> PLEASE ....PLEASE BUGGGGGGGGEEEEEPOW! Thank you all very much

'Configure your Computer - Network and internet - Alter miscellaneous
internet settings' and enter something appropriate in the space for 'Host
name (optional)'. I don't know why Mandriva think it's 'optional'.

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George wrote:

> I'm trying to share a printer attached to my mandriva computer.
>
>>Configure your computer>sharing>setup a file and print sharing between
> Linux and Windows Machines brings up the following...
>
> You need to readjust your hostname. 'localhost' is not a correct hostname
> for a DNS server. Hostname must be a FQDN: Fully Qualified Domain Name
>
> I looked through 'man hostname' but it wasn't very clear to me on how to
> permanently change my hostname to a FQDN like mandrivabox.linuxdomain
>
> Please Please help me...I'm fallin...Please please..da da I say
> PLEASE ....PLEASE BUGGGGGGGGEEEEEPOW! Thank you all very much

MCC > Network & Internet
or /etc/hosts

On Tue, 08 May 2007 20:05:35 +0000, jimf wrote:

> George wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to share a printer attached to my mandriva computer.
>>
>>>Configure your computer>sharing>setup a file and print sharing between
>> Linux and Windows Machines brings up the following...
>>
>> You need to readjust your hostname. 'localhost' is not a correct
>> hostname for a DNS server. Hostname must be a FQDN: Fully Qualified
>> Domain Name
>>
>> I looked through 'man hostname' but it wasn't very clear to me on how
>> to permanently change my hostname to a FQDN like
>> mandrivabox.linuxdomain
>>
>> Please Please help me...I'm fallin...Please please..da da I say PLEASE
>> ....PLEASE BUGGGGGGGGEEEEEPOW! Thank you all very much
>
> MCC > Network & Internet
> or /etc/hosts


Thanks guys a whooooole bunch!