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I run 4.8, but here are my suggestions:

>=20
> The final question I have is one that's probably obscure.  I=20
> remember a switch used to tell the dhcp client to send the=20
> host name of the laptop to a dhcp server.  While it gets a=20

man dhclient.conf

> lease perfectly fine, opening up my linksys dhcp table ( at=20
> home ) or the NT dhcp server at work I can only see that a=20
> machine has that lease.  The name of the laptop isn't listed.=20
>  I had enabled something on a laptop I had a couple of years=20
> ago that made it so the name showed up, but I haven't been=20
> able to find anything on this since and I have no idea how I=20
> did it before or even where I found it.

I don't think dhclient is the issue.  If you want your machine
to appear on the network, install samba.  You don't need to=20
share anything out unless you want to, but samba contains the
network name service (nmbd).  Then again, maybe I misunderstood
you.