hostname problem on a local network
Tobias Fendin
tobias.fendin at telia.com
Mon May 2 11:44:45 PDT 2005
Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote:
> I have a FreeBSD 4.9 system on a private network, connected to the
> internet through a Netgear router/firewall which acts as a DHCP server
> and receives its names through netbios. I'm trying to set it to
> respond to the fully qualified name "schfrbsd.lan". In my rc.conf, I
> have the line:
>
> hostname="schfrbsd.lan"
>
> I've also tried adding a dot to the end of it:
>
> hostname="schfrbsd.lan."
>
> Whatever I do, I cannot get the machine to register itself on the
> network (though Samba) as schfrbsd.lan. It always shows up as
> schfrbsd. "hostname -s" returns the same value.
>
> Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Bill
Though it shouldn't be needed, you could try to set Sambas netbios name.
See smb.conf(5) for more details.
// Tobias Fendin
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