On 28/01/12 15:08, Chris Green wrote:
So why doesn't 192.168.1.99 have a name? Both test.zbmc.eu and
laptop.zbmc.eu are running versions of xubuntu and they work perfectly
OK. The only *very* slight difference with 192.168.1.99 is that its
name is acer-aspire, would that '-' have any effect?
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 01:10:34PM +, Simon Kelley wrote:
On 28/01/12 15:08, Chris Green wrote:
So why doesn't 192.168.1.99 have a name? Both test.zbmc.eu and
laptop.zbmc.eu are running versions of xubuntu and they work perfectly
OK. The only *very* slight difference with 192.168.1.99
On 30/01/12 15:43, Chris Green wrote:
... I think I may have found the problem, the system that *doesn't*
provide a name is running wicd rather than network-manager. Maybe wicd
doesn't provide a name to DHCP. I'll investigate.
If you don't want to mess around with the client you can name
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 04:28:34PM +, Simon Kelley wrote:
On 30/01/12 15:43, Chris Green wrote:
... I think I may have found the problem, the system that *doesn't*
provide a name is running wicd rather than network-manager. Maybe wicd
doesn't provide a name to DHCP. I'll investigate.
On 30/01/12 12:09 PM, Chris Green wrote:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 04:28:34PM +, Simon Kelley wrote:
On 30/01/12 15:43, Chris Green wrote:
... I think I may have found the problem, the system that *doesn't*
provide a name is running wicd rather than network-manager. Maybe wicd
doesn't
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:25:38PM -0500, Weedy wrote:
On 30/01/12 12:09 PM, Chris Green wrote:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 04:28:34PM +, Simon Kelley wrote:
On 30/01/12 15:43, Chris Green wrote:
... I think I may have found the problem, the system that *doesn't*
provide a name is
I run a small home network with dnsmasq running on one of the machines
to provide DNS and DHCP services. It all works fine but I've just
noticed that when I connect a laptop running xubuntu 11.10 to the system
it doesn't register its name with the dsnsmasq server.
Other machines seem to provide
