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Norman Clerman wrote: > Now I have a second workstation on the LAN, this one running SuSE > Linux 8.1. On it I set my CVSROOT environment variable to be > :pserver:myname at hostname//e/CVSROOT. When I enter cvs login, I see the > line: logging in to :pserver:myname at hostname:2401//e/CVSROOT., and I am > prompted for a password, which I enter. The screen then shows: Unknown > host hostname., and terminates. (I have successfully accessed the W2K > server from the Linux workstation, using the name hostname, with > smbclient and smbmount) Can you ping the host from the Linux box? My guess is no. Add an entry to the /etc/hosts file for the CVS server and make sure you can ping it. The reason you can connect using the hostname using Samba tools is that NetBios resolution is a completely different animal, and the smb* tools will actually do a broadcast looking for the host when the DNS lookup fails... HTH John