[Malvern] Problems setting up network on SUSE

[Robin Wilson]

Hi all,

I have just wiped my hard drive and re-installed suse (mainly because my 
server got hacked).

I have a few problems that I can't seem to sort out - that I managed to get 
working last time I installed suse - but can't remember how to sort them!

1) I have apache running fine - but I can only access the server via my 
machines IP (192.168.0.3) not its hostname (linux). What I mean is that I 
used to be able to do http://linux/ in an IE/Firefox window and it would 
work fine.

2) (This is probably related to 1) I cannot type "ping ROBPC" at the command 
prompt. If I do that I get "ROBPC: host not found" but if I do ping 
192.168.0.4 (ROBPC's IP) then I get a response.

Basically I think the problem is all to do with nameservers and stuff. The 
IP's are given using DHCP. The DHCP server (on the router) makes sure that 
Linux's IP is always 192.168.0.3 so it can route web server connections to 
it.

I am also running a samba server on my linux box. And windows can see the 
Linux computer - but when I try and access it it gives an error. That can 
probably wait for another day though.

If any of you have any ideas about this I would be most grateful to hear 
them.

Thanks in advance

Robin