Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 20:44:42 +0200 From: Tobias Fendin <tobias.fendin@telia.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hostname problem on a local network Message-ID: <4276751A.6070003@telia.com> In-Reply-To: <42764BCC.2000903@schmittnet.com> References: <42764BCC.2000903@schmittnet.com>
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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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