On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 13:10 +0200, Oliver Schinagl wrote: > Hello, > > first off, awesome work so far on the network manager. I've seen it in > the latest Fiesty release of Ubunutu and was quite impressed. To bad > it's gnome only, as I'd love to also be able to use with xfce (sans the > gnome bulk). > > Anyway, I hope this isn't asked/mention earlier, I couldn't find it in > the mailinglist archive. > > At my university, where I can hookup my laptop to the local > infrastructure, it is required that your hostname is set to your > username. Under windows anyway, the linux dhcpcd client has a neat > option however, -h to specify a specific hostname to query the dhcp > server with. Right now, changing the hostname via the network manager > changes the hostname of the entire box, and thus renames my laptop, > something that's not required or wanted.
Stock NetworkManager never changes your hostname unless you're on SUSE. This is likely a custom Ubuntu patch, please file a bug in Ubuntu's launchpad if the behavior is unwanted. > So here's my question/suggestion, would it be possible to add a hostname > field per connection instead of renaming the entire machine for such > purpouses? Not in 0.6, but in 0.7 it will be possible. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
