I can't see my nt workstation from linux

> If I do an rlogin from Linux,
how would you rlogin to NT?

> .. can't resolve the hostnames.
Did you setup /etc/host and \winnt\system32\drivers\lmhosts properly ?
Or do you use DNS?

Thanks. That helped fixed the Linux side. I don't have Imhosts in my system32 directory (NT).. I mainly will be connecting for Linux. I'm getting a connection refused still when I use:

rlogin -l linux686 Windows_NT

My domain names are set the same.

My problem is probably  NT Workstation. I can't use NT Server because Linux is on the same computer. Can I connect Linux to NT Workstation? Thanks.

Sorry about that, found Lmhosts in directory. Configuring now.

Sounds like the NT Workstation relies on the NT Server being the PDC (Primary Domain Controller) for your NT Domain.  And since you reboot it into Linux the PDC has now gone away and is no longer answering netbios calls and you end up dropping the NT Domain.

Samba can be configured to run as a PDC with little trouble (see the man page on smb.conf for more info).  That way you have the machine for the PDC in either Linux or NT.

Hope this helps.

> rlogin -l linux686 Windows_NT
so your NT has a service running which listens on port 513, and grants acces to NT ?

Now, was lmhosts the answer for your problem, otherwise please be more specific

BTW, PDC has nothing to do with your hostname resolution.

That was probably part fo the problem and I'll grant the points for it. I needed to set up Samba better. That seems to be working fine from the Linux side.  I'm going to post another question about the problem of Linux not seeing my permissions correctly and not letting me write to the drives.

so what solved the problem now? who's to answer?