[ale] Problem with using dhcp and cable modem

[Gary Maltzen]

Do you have two *different* subnets for the two different NICs in 'bandit'? 

Presumably you are using 'bandit' as a router/gateway for your (Win9x) intranet?

To solve your immediate problem where Samba AS A DEFAULT uses your DNS-resolved name for a NetBios name, you could try these overrides in /etc/smb.conf ...

   [global]
     netbios name = bandit
     netbios alias = robber thief

That should give you THREE different (simultaneous) NB names for your system

>I recently added a second NIC card to my Linux PC, and connected a cable modem to
>that NIC card.  This arrangement requires me to configure the card to use dhcp, and to
>execute a login program called rrlogin.
>
>Everything is working fairly well, except for one thing.
>
>Prior to adding the dhcp I had a name of "bandit" for my host name.  I have a local
>LAN with three WIN98 machines using the Linux PC as a file server with samba. The
>share name the WIN98 machines use is "bandit".
>
>Now because of the dhcp addition my host name has been changed to 142hfc222 which
>is a combination of the IP address dhcp has assigned to me, and the letters hfc.  dhcp also
>generates a new resolv.conf on each bootup with just the information that it expects to find there.
>
>I would like to get back to having my host name be "bandit", particularly for samba.  I
>do not want a dynamic host name that changes every few weeks.