>- Original Message -
>From: "Derrick Ryalls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "'chris corayer'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Friday, 06 June, 2003 2:50
>Subject: RE: A couple of questions for 5.1rc1
>I run 4.8, but here are my suggestions:
>>
>> The final question I have is one that's probably obscure. I
>> remember a switch used to tell the dhcp client to send the
>> host name of the laptop to a dhcp server. While it gets a
>man dhclient.conf
>> lease perfectly fine, opening up my linksys dhcp table ( at
>> home ) or the NT dhcp server at work I can only see that a
>> machine has that lease. The name of the laptop isn't listed.
>> I had enabled something on a laptop I had a couple of years
>> ago that made it so the name showed up, but I haven't been
>> able to find anything on this since and I have no idea how I
>> did it before or even where I found it.
>I don't think dhclient is the issue. If you want your machine
>to appear on the network, install samba. You don't need to
>share anything out unless you want to, but samba contains the
>network name service (nmbd). Then again, maybe I misunderstood
>you.
I neglected to mention that I had read through the dhcp related man pages.
Probably due to my lack of sleep I missed it but I managed to find what I
needed. It was not what I expected it to be.
I had put in the line send host-name "myhost"; into my dhclient.conf
file. However, the line I was actually looking for wassend
dhcp-client-identifier "myhost"; I'm not entirely sure why you would use
the first one I tried, perhaps if the server always assigns a particular
system the same IP address? Then again, wouldn't the line I ended up using
do the same thing? Anyway, with the dhcp-client-identifier line, the system
now shows up in the NT server/linksys router dhcp clients table. So that's
one part down.
I will likely be adding samba soon as it will be nice for the laptop to show
up in the browse lists as well.
Now I just need to spend some more time this weekend and see if I can't fix
those ACPI/APM issues.
-Chris
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