[ale] Samba Server gone haywire?

[John H. Stephenson]

I am running a Red Hat 7 server with Samba file and printer sharing on a 
TCP/IP network along with several Windows machines (98 and 2000).

Things were running sweetly for several weeks. No problems at all...

Then, I had my main Windows2000 system went down and I had to reinstall 
Win2k. At the same time another Windows system had a motherboard go 
bad.  When I got the workstations back on the network, I couldn't find the 
linux server (localhost) on the network neighborhoods of the Windows pcs. 
(I had not done anything in the meantime to the server and it stayed 
running during all of this.)

When I went down to the server to investigate, I found that it mysteriously 
now shows the names of other workstations on the network as it's name on 
the login prompt and the command line.

Where it once said...

localhost login:


and


[root at localhost /root]#


it now says...

jstephenson1 login:


and


[root at jstephenson1 /root]#

where jstephenson1 is the name of one of my windows pcs on the 
network.  The server has also thought it was two other windows pcs on the 
network at various times as well.

More info...

When I restarted the windows2000 machine with new installation of the os, 
all the ip addresses on the network were changed by the dhcp server in my 
firewall/router unit.

Also, when I boot the linux server,  I see the following notable lines...

setting hostname localhost.localdomain		(as it should)

starting sendmail				(returns OK, but after an abnormal three minute wait)

starting httpd					(retuens errors saying "cannot detect local hostname. 
Use the SerrverName 						directive to manually set hostname." This didn't 
happen before and I actually
						had a functioning http service before. I saw the HTML test page when 
I browsed
						to the ip address of the server. I am not yet using the http server 
however.)

I suspect this all is due to some tcp/ip problem with the new ip address 
scheme. I changed the entries in the /etc/hosts file. Is there a restart 
that needs to be done on this?

I'm lost.

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