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From: Tobias Fendin <tobias.fendin@telia.com>
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Subject: Re: hostname problem on a local network
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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