zimbra_posixaccounts and zimbra_samba - "cannot figure out hostname on localhost"

[rickarderiksson]

Hi,

First of all I want to say great work with Zimbra. Really easy to work with.

This however is something I cannot figure out. Our Zimbra deployment works like a charm, no wierd stuff and the LDAP trees look ok.

I followed the standard guide to setup the LDAP authentication stuff and it works to some extent. For example, my home made LDAP entry for a user can logon to the system authenticated by the LDAP entry.

Samba doesn't work, but it seems it's a small problem.

The reason I'm posting is because I'm getting an error when trying to deploy the zimlets:

com.zimbra.cs.zimlet.ZimletException: cannot figure out hostname on localhost
at com.zimbra.cs.zimlet.ZimletException.INVALID_ZIMLE T_CONFIG(ZimletException.java:44)
at com.zimbra.cs.zimlet.ZimletConfig.initialize(Zimle tConfig.java:56)
at com.zimbra.cs.zimlet.ZimletMeta.<init>(ZimletMeta. java:84)
at com.zimbra.cs.zimlet.ZimletConfig.<init>(ZimletCon fig.java:43)
at com.zimbra.cs.zimlet.ZimletFile.initZimletConfig(Z imletFile.java:239)
at com.zimbra.cs.zimlet.ZimletFile.getZimletConfig(Zi mletFile.java:261)
at com.zimbra.cs.zimlet.ZimletUtil.deployZimlet(Zimle tUtil.java:500)
at com.zimbra.cs.zimlet.ZimletUtil.deployZimlet(Zimle tUtil.java:402)
at com.zimbra.cs.service.admin.DeployZimlet$DeployThr ead.run(DeployZimlet.java:96)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

I tried adding the <host name="ourserverhostname"></host> in the config_template.xml file without luck.

Anyone have an idea on why this is happening?

[dionrowney]

I am also experiencing this problem and cannot seem to locate any answers. Did you solve this?

dion

[dionrowney]

adding my fully qualified hostname to /etc/hosts seems to do the trick. odd. dns should have resolved this.