Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:50:48 -0700 From: "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@datasphereweb.com> To: "'chris corayer'" <ccorayer@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: A couple of questions for 5.1rc1.... Message-ID: <00c201c32bf7$f9f8e260$0200a8c0@bartxp> In-Reply-To: <Law9-OE65W9V2byyI2d00030286@hotmail.com>
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I run 4.8, but here are my suggestions: >=20 > The final question I have is one that's probably obscure. I=20 > remember a switch used to tell the dhcp client to send the=20 > host name of the laptop to a dhcp server. While it gets a=20 man dhclient.conf > lease perfectly fine, opening up my linksys dhcp table ( at=20 > home ) or the NT dhcp server at work I can only see that a=20 > machine has that lease. The name of the laptop isn't listed.=20 > I had enabled something on a laptop I had a couple of years=20 > ago that made it so the name showed up, but I haven't been=20 > able to find anything on this since and I have no idea how I=20 > 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=20 share anything out unless you want to, but samba contains the network name service (nmbd). Then again, maybe I misunderstood you.
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