Quote Originally Posted by boardman View Post
Hi dmizer. below is my /etc/hosts file.
The MSHOME thing I think is from where I tried making my ubuntu workgroup MSHOME (which is the same windows workgroup name entered on my DNS323). I thought I had removed this in the Admin>Network gui but it seems to have stuck.

Code:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 fridge.MSHOME

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
I'd like to stay with Hardy as I have installed all the little bits and pieces I like, I don't want to redo all my fiddling

There is a potential problem with upgrading the firmware which is that from reading a few forum posts etc it appears that the firmware upgrade nessesitates a reformat of the drives. I am going to ask a couple of questions on the DNS323 forum as I don't currently have enough free harddrive space to copy everything off the nas drive while I update.

As an aside my mothers family from Hamamatsu, small planet I guess
wow ... small planet indeed.

well, the MSHOME in your /etc/hosts file is causing your "unable to resolve host <COMPUTER NAME>" problem. edit /etc/hosts and remove the ".MSHOME" from the end of "fridge.MSHOME" so it will look like this:
Code:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 fridge

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
this may help with your netbios name resolution, as well as with your permissions.