Issues setting hostname with DHCP

blaroe · 05-30-2005, 04:11 AM

Running Hoary...

My Ubuntu machine name is not showing up in my network and I cannot figure out why this is happening. Here's where I am so far:

I have set the hosts file and hostname file to contain the name of my machine as follows:

/etc/host

Code:

127.0.0.1 mymachine localhost localhost.localdomain

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

and
/etc/hostname

Code:

mymachine

My default gateway and DNS server entries are properly set in the network app.

I can ping the machine via its address - i.e., ping 10.0.0.1 returns and I can access the SMB shares using the ip address - i.e. \\10.0.0.1\myshare functions flawlessly.

Any ideas from the experts?

bl

saneax · 05-30-2005, 04:27 AM

in you ifcfg-eth0...
put an extra line with
DHCP_HOSTNAME=mymachine

blaroe · 05-30-2005, 04:46 AM

cheers thanks!

I also cracked it by uncommenting 'send host name "myhostname"' in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf.

Don't know for sure which is right - probably both

bl