On 9/6/06, Mike <stuff@dustsmoke.com> wrote:
>
> Dazed_75 wrote:
> > Whether I look at the DHCP Clients Table on my Linksys WRT54G, a
> > Network Neighborhood window in XP, a nbtstat -c or net view command
> > result in a command window, or a servers list in Ubuntu I only see
> > names for my Windows boxes and my TiVo unit.  The Linux boxes show up
> > in the DHCP client list of course but sans any name at all.  I can
> > ping the windows boxes by name from another windows box but not from
> > Linux.
> >
> > 1) What makes the router recognize the box names for clients other
> > than Linux?  Can something in Linux be configured so the router knows
> > their names?
> >
> > 2) I am guessing that the windows ping command gets box names from
> > something other than DNS or the HOSTS file.  Anyone know what?  Or if
> > Linux is using that ability (via Samba?) to find the Windows Network
> > boxes?  Could that facility be used to make the Linux box names known
> > to Windows boxes?
>
> As for getting the name to show up on a dhcp server, (e.g. the linksys)
> if your using the dhcp3 client on linux you just need to add something
> like
> send host-name "computername";
> to your /etc/dhclient.conf or /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
>
>
> This did fix the name showing for the DHCP Client list on the router.  For
Ubuntu 6.06 it was in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf as you said.  I find it
difficult to believe this in not standard behaviour for a DHCP client.  I
also find it very ugly that one would have to manually edit that file for
each machine in the local net.  Problem solved but there has to be a better
way.  Thanks Mike!


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