From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Sat Oct 22 17:07:10 2005
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED76C16A41F
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:07:10 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from sequethin@gmail.com)
Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.205])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D97B43D45
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:07:10 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from sequethin@gmail.com)
Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id r21so46835wxc
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 10:07:09 -0700 (PDT)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com;
	h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references;
	b=r+/popUUcEZ9PzQKWn0tS9hZBkjVUXCK0NaCLLoGJ3Fz3fxkhRORuiBSZIjc02IvJDl0Xlku/if9F/L6Rx/TbxC0L10RnwdSwZZfJSog/0FXO/lkOzK433Ds6Pk27/kEpmtHn9JYffkUKIl12T2W3YGwDAZscMWczv28B3C/0kA=
Received: by 10.70.112.3 with SMTP id k3mr2505252wxc;
	Sat, 22 Oct 2005 10:07:09 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.70.31.18 with HTTP; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 10:07:09 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <3060c2390510221007m38876bcdx6749af221e33d25@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:07:09 -0400
From: Mike Hernandez <sequethin@gmail.com>
To: questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <7381F490-0CDC-48E5-9137-924B25A8F670@redry.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline
References: <7381F490-0CDC-48E5-9137-924B25A8F670@redry.net>
Cc: 
Subject: Re: computer name
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:07:11 -0000

On 10/22/05, eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> wrote:
> Id like to get it sending this name so I can also use it with samba
> like:
> \\home.nathaniel\public
> Instead of using the machines IP address. Thanks for any help.

If you don't have a local dns server that you control (i.e. that you
can add the hostname too), then you'll have to add home.nathaniel to
the hosts file of the box you are trying to get there from. Windows
has a hosts file similar to your freebsd box.

Mike