Cannot connect via Hostname

[mpg187]

At school can connect to my computer via SMB/Samba and VNC from the Windows Machines, but not by hostname (I still cannot VNC in at home on my desktop computer and have yet to try Samba there because I wanna setup Samba there from the comfort of my laptop and therefore need VNC first).

How come I cannot access this machine by it's hostname?

[scottro]

The WIndows machines need some way of identifying your machine. It might broadcast its name with nmb, in which case it might show up in Windows Active Directory. Otherwise, you'd have to put the name in the WIndows LMHOSTS file.

The WIndows machines, like a Linux machine, will get their information from a hosts file or from AD, (assuming it's an AD network). So, if AD has your Linux machine's name, it'll work--if AD doesn't, then it won't. If it was a really old network, say, NT4, then they'd use a WINS server, but either way, the WIndows machines need to have some server, or know themselves, what name goes with the IP address.

[mpg187]

At my house I don't have to do anything, I just type in the hostnames and when connecting a Windows machine it works.

[mpg187]

I can connect to Fedora using samba at school (after enabling nmb) but I can't connect to apache or VNC, how do I make it work?

[marcrblevins]

You mean Apache is not working at the school location?

Should check:
chkconfig httpd on
service httpd status
Is port 80 open with system-config-firewall?