From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 10 18:50:48 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04B071065782 for ; Mon, 10 May 2010 18:50:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dak.col@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 887058FC1B for ; Mon, 10 May 2010 18:50:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm15 with SMTP id 15so3175145fxm.13 for ; Mon, 10 May 2010 11:50:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=o7I0iPfzHf48szoBW3jXSbupqwbZn7ccvYqe/Um2d5k=; b=XsoUFrDgRmS0vVxOpeig85ZkkGATlMMU8N6D30B9M0GmxrfwfvZXDfK9lUakjAH0cq /DyJ4oMthM5Ansf59zVDoYIIAcs7SRFOa5vD4EZC3MKbTllqtsGjAkioFk+3VAkLSNbn zrDMsnzRrzSKQwrrPV2EQmAf40r2qhPYmhQ/g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=AKrM3iGNdfYYYbGfE+0gRA5+48AlKj/FKlm3y8PC0MV/vMexx7MmK4qWclh3Wov6Pc fLagzuwkV/WLR+Ej8K4kmpLui63X/hcgQLtZhCgnTL+buUULz88GswY0/wabpQXrhOMo 9csQ2dHvnmj7P3B+fFhpzpyA2JhsIaw9cNFxg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.32.85 with SMTP id b21mr4743045fad.95.1273517446179; Mon, 10 May 2010 11:50:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.110.75 with HTTP; Mon, 10 May 2010 11:50:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 13:50:46 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Diego F. Arias R." To: Aleksandr Miroslav Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: microsoft windows help needed (DHCP server problems) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 18:50:48 -0000 On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE on my work PC. > > My organization runs largely Windows desktops with a sizable chunk of > Mac OS X machines. > > Whenever a Windows/Mac connects to the Windows-based DHCP server, it > not only does the normal DHCP functions (i.e. gets an IP), it also > sets the hostname on the Windows server for that IP. > > i.e. when windows.example.org connects to dhcpserver.example.org, the > dhcp server assigns to it 192.168.1.1 AND sets the PTR record for > 192.168.1.1 to be windows.example.org. > > But for my FreeBSD box seems to only do the first part, i.e. get an IP > address. The second part does not seem to be done. > > Is this some Windows/Mac overloading of the DHCP protocol that I > cannot do, or is there some DHCP bit I need to flip to make this > happen? > > > thanks, > Alex > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Im think you are wrong (Not 100% shure), yes the DHCP assign the ip but is the windows machine (Client) thats sets its name on the DNS (At least on a Active Directory domain) So when that fails you put ipconfig /registerdns (Windows Machine). anyway check man dhclient.conf the part of examples is maybe what you are looking for. (send host-name "andare.fugue.com";) Diego Arias -- mmm, interesante.....