Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 08:55:40 -0400 From: "chris corayer" <ccorayer@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A couple of questions for 5.1rc1.... Message-ID: <Law9-OE21YAXELZjDbJ00013441@hotmail.com> References: <00c201c32bf7$f9f8e260$0200a8c0@bartxp>
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>----- Original Message ----- >From: "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@datasphereweb.com> >To: "'chris corayer'" <ccorayer@hotmail.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> >Sent: Friday, 06 June, 2003 2:50 >Subject: RE: A couple of questions for 5.1rc1.... >I run 4.8, but here are my suggestions: >> >> The final question I have is one that's probably obscure. I >> remember a switch used to tell the dhcp client to send the >> host name of the laptop to a dhcp server. While it gets a >man dhclient.conf >> lease perfectly fine, opening up my linksys dhcp table ( at >> home ) or the NT dhcp server at work I can only see that a >> machine has that lease. The name of the laptop isn't listed. >> I had enabled something on a laptop I had a couple of years >> ago that made it so the name showed up, but I haven't been >> able to find anything on this since and I have no idea how I >> 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 >share anything out unless you want to, but samba contains the >network name service (nmbd). Then again, maybe I misunderstood >you. I neglected to mention that I had read through the dhcp related man pages. Probably due to my lack of sleep I missed it but I managed to find what I needed. It was not what I expected it to be. I had put in the line send host-name "myhost"; into my dhclient.conf file. However, the line I was actually looking for was send dhcp-client-identifier "myhost"; I'm not entirely sure why you would use the first one I tried, perhaps if the server always assigns a particular system the same IP address? Then again, wouldn't the line I ended up using do the same thing? Anyway, with the dhcp-client-identifier line, the system now shows up in the NT server/linksys router dhcp clients table. So that's one part down. I will likely be adding samba soon as it will be nice for the laptop to show up in the browse lists as well. Now I just need to spend some more time this weekend and see if I can't fix those ACPI/APM issues. -Chris
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