Miami Q's.

[sdesros]

I'm having some issues with Miami and Samba I think.

I think my main problem is I can't seem to get a hostname set with MIAMI.

Background:
I'm sharing my cable connection with a Linksys router (model no. BESFR41 I think...  something like that.)

Anyway, I've got it configured for a DHCP connection.  Everything works great with PC's, Macs and my system.  Although Miami 3.2 complains when it's trying to retreive the system's hostname via DHCP.  So I turned off the "dynamic" hostname and configured it with a default name (ie: Amiga).

Now, if I do "MiamiPing Amiga", it tells me that the host is not found.  I can't ping "Amiga" from other machines on the lan, and my router's DHCP client table has a blank name next to my system's IP address.

What's wrong here?

I figure, if I can't reference the system by it's hostname, then I won't be able to get any further with SAMBA?  I did configure the "netbios name" in SWAT to be the same name as my hostname.  But nevertheless, I can't seem to find it via nay system, even the same one via smbfs.

Am I missing something blatenly obvious?

[amiga1260]

To use DHCP, you need MiamiDX and for your Samba problems look at: http://www.amigasamba.org/

Getting MiamiDX is nowadays very difficult. You could set your IP- adress manually in your Routetable.

[destro]

Hello There. You do have a Registerd Version Of
Miami Right?

As long as you have Two Miami Keyfiles Named
Miami.Key1 and Miami.Key2 then you should be
fine with miami to use The DHCP.

If you need to email me at: blakbyrd@earthlink.net

Have a nice day.

[sdesros]

I already have the keys for Miami 3.2b.  I don't need DX, seeing as I don't want to set up my amiga as a DHCP server, the DHCP server is my Linksys Router.  Miami 3.2's DHCP client seems to work fine.

I've done a little more playing around with my Lan.  My PC's can ping each other using Hostname and/or ip addresses.  They cannot find my Sun sparc or my Pegasos (that's using Miami) using the hostname I wrote.

My Peg and Sun can't ping anything in my lan by their hostnames, just their ip addresses.  (I have been able to find my PC's through Samba however.)

When I lookup on my router's DHCP client's table, both my peg and sun have a blank name as the hostname.  The pcs have their hostnames displayed are fine though.

P.S.
I just fired up my OSX system, and it does the same thing as the Sun and Peg.  Anyone have any suggestions?  Or should I just give up trying to get DHCP running and set everything up with static ip's?  *shudder*.

[tonyw]

Does the Amiga know the IP address of the nameserver? Does the router perform this task for the other machines?

You have to enter an IP address for the "Name Server" entry before the Amiga will know whom to ask for the IP address of one of the other computers that you call by name only.

Frankly, I'd prefer to use fixed addresses on a network that is entirely under your control and where you don't have machines coming and going all day (like in an office with sales people connecting and disconnecting machines frequently). If you had fixed addresses, you would merely have a file "hosts" that lists all the machines on the network and their IP addresses. You would copy this file to each machine.

tony

PS: What is that person doing in your avatar? He/she appears to be sawing something, but what?

[Aniway]

Looks like someone on a bad day sawing the head off the hologram from 'Voyager'.

Aniway

[Aniway]

Looks like someone on a bad day sawing the head off the hologram from 'Voyager'.

Aniway

[Aniway]

:: PS: What is that person doing in your avatar?
::  He/she appears to be sawing something, but
::  what?

Looks like someone on a bad day sawing the head off the hologram from 'Voyager'.

Aniway

[olegil]

We heard you the first two times ;-)

[KennyR]

Point 1) Miami is good enough for DHCP, in fact probably better than DX, which has very buggy DHCP handling.

Point 2) Hardware routers don't return a hostname anyway when you connect, so you were right to define your own.

Point 3) Miami/DX is quite dumb and needs hostname entries to be given a static IP address in its database. Yes, this sucks, and mean dynamic IPs on a LAN won't work if you use Samba.

However, there is a workaround. My router at least allows you to map LAN IPs to MAC addresses; so you can have your Amiga always use the same IP and yet still can use DHCP to connect. Its a common feature of routers so you probably have it too. You should try this. Then define hostnames in Miami's database for these IPs, and you should be rockin'.

[olsen]

[Rigger]

I have to add my voice to the other here. If it is within your control (and it is since it's your own network) alway use static addresses. I used to have a BESFR41 connecting an A4000, two win boxs and a power mac. The A4000 was the samba workgroup/domain controller. Even if you choose to use dynamic addresses you should still set the gateway as the static address of the router and the subdomain should be static. The main reason to use the static addresses when dealing with an Amiga and samba is your have to define the Database/Hosts with the computers on your network. Lastly, did you try to ping the router from the Amiga?