From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 6 05:47:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02ABC37B401 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 05:47:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (law9-oe21.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.8.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 507D943FAF for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 05:47:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ccorayer@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 05:47:32 -0700 Received: from 66.30.133.209 by oe21.law9.hotmail.com with DAV; Fri, 06 Jun 2003 12:47:32 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [66.30.133.209] X-Originating-Email: [ccorayer@hotmail.com] From: "chris corayer" To: References: <00c201c32bf7$f9f8e260$0200a8c0@bartxp> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 08:55:40 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Jun 2003 12:47:32.0972 (UTC) FILETIME=[CC521AC0:01C32C29] Subject: Re: A couple of questions for 5.1rc1.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 12:47:39 -0000 >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Derrick Ryalls" >To: "'chris corayer'" ; >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