Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 13:50:46 -0500 From: "Diego F. Arias R." <dak.col@gmail.com> To: Aleksandr Miroslav <alexmiroslav@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: microsoft windows help needed (DHCP server problems) Message-ID: <AANLkTin0PAF5hXkarr2i6Iv8pNSUWqMRjAAiasO5aAiB@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilR83s32A5t5M3nXmxcXMPIBb0fAYNzWfGM70Pv@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTilR83s32A5t5M3nXmxcXMPIBb0fAYNzWfGM70Pv@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Aleksandr Miroslav <alexmiroslav@gmail.com>wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE on my work PC. > > My organization runs largely Windows desktops with a sizable chunk of > Mac OS X machines. > > Whenever a Windows/Mac connects to the Windows-based DHCP server, it > not only does the normal DHCP functions (i.e. gets an IP), it also > sets the hostname on the Windows server for that IP. > > i.e. when windows.example.org connects to dhcpserver.example.org, the > dhcp server assigns to it 192.168.1.1 AND sets the PTR record for > 192.168.1.1 to be windows.example.org. > > But for my FreeBSD box seems to only do the first part, i.e. get an IP > address. The second part does not seem to be done. > > Is this some Windows/Mac overloading of the DHCP protocol that I > cannot do, or is there some DHCP bit I need to flip to make this > happen? > > > thanks, > Alex > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Im think you are wrong (Not 100% shure), yes the DHCP assign the ip but is the windows machine (Client) thats sets its name on the DNS (At least on a Active Directory domain) So when that fails you put ipconfig /registerdns (Windows Machine). anyway check man dhclient.conf the part of examples is maybe what you are looking for. (send host-name "andare.fugue.com";) Diego Arias -- mmm, interesante.....
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