On Friday 07 March 2003 06:28 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > >> > >>$ getent hosts `hostname` > > > > Thanks Buchan, I did see the post that an update was made and I'll > > test it > > > tonight. > > Greg, I installed rc2 last night, and there are two issues I see so far > 1)No way to set DHCP_HOSTNAME in > /etc/syconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth? except manually. > 2)HOSTNAME is not set in /etc/sysconfig/network > These values don't seem to be set no matter what is entered in drakconnect. If I enter them manually though, they still don't take effect. This is not my router either, because if I look at the dhcp table of the router, the hostnames of my 9.0 and Windows machines are entered correctly
> IMHO, HOSTNAME should be set there if the user entered a zeroconf > hostname, and drakconnect should have a dialog something like "This > network interface requires a hostname to be sent with the DHCP request" > with a field to enter a name there, which goes in DHCP_HOSTNAME in > /etc/syconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth?. > It seems to me there should also be an entry in dhclient-eth0.conf to tell the dhcp client to send the requested hostname. > This bug screws up the winbind setup (thankfully we do not yet advertise > the ability for a non-domain-admin to join a machine to the domain, but > it worked in 9.0, see > http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/samba/Integrating%20Linux%20into%20Wind >ows%20Networks.tar.gz ) > I know and it works(worked?) great. I really enjoyed having my 9.0 machines use my NT domain for authentication right from teh instalation. > Regards, > Buchan -- Greg
