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Cannot access Samba share from windows 7 using hostname

I've been trying for days to get this working, and everywhere I look online it seems no one has a definitive answer, so here is the run down: I have an external drive attached to my ubuntu 12.04 ...
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Access Windows machines from Ubuntu on local network by hostname

[I've searched a LOT for a solution to this issue, but if someone wants to point me to a related question and/or answer, please do!] I have a local network over a broadband router with 3 Windows 7 ...
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resolving windows hostname

my main host is windows and im running ubuntu on a virtual guest OS, im currently mounting a folder in windows and in ubuntu and i get this error: in /etc/fstab //Windows-PC/shared ...
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Cannot resolve hostname?

I' using lucid 10.04 i used centrify agent to add my ubuntu machine into AD. The machine name is suppose to be abc.company.edu.uk. I have edited /etc/hosts file. It says as 192.168.1.22 ...
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How do I change a machine name in DNS

I'm trying to change my computer's name in DNS so that others on the same subnet can refer to it by its new name - however, whatever changes I make in /etc/hosts and by using 'hostname' to use the ...
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How should I configure my hostname to support forwarding MX records?

I have a server on 12.04.1 with ISPConfig3 and a few domains. Each of the domains forwards to my WAN IP which then forwards to my server on my local network. I am trying to get the MX records for ...
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Problem Raised after changing the system hostname

I have changed the hostname of my computer from dar to hus by editing the /etc/hosts file and /etc/hostname file. Now the problem is that some software which were installed under 'dar' are not ...
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Accessing share without defining host

I've created multiple Samba shares using "net usershare" and they work perfectly. The only question is that the user connecting to the share has to use one of the following two formats to log in ...
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Can set a computer name for each network interface?

I know that I can change the name of the computer editing the file /etc/hostname. My question is if it can be configured so the name in the lan (eth0) appears with one name and in the wireless lan ...
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Why can't I login after changing my hostname?

I recently change my hostname with sudo hostname matthew-laptop and edited /etc/hosts and checked cat /etc/hostname outputs matthew-laptop, which it does. However when I try and login on startup, ...
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Ubuntu bind server stops working every few minutes

We have a bind9 DNS server installed on our network running on an Ubuntu system. Normally it works just fine, but every 20 minutes or so, it will stop working for about 3 minutes. Normally if I "dig ...