On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:28:12 -0400, Gordon Keehn <gordonkeehn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote: > > > Gordon Keehn wrote: > > > >> Hi, Guys > >> Unforeseen (and unfortunate) circumstances led me to the point > >> where I had to change the system name of one of the PCs (Win2K), with > >> several shared resources, on my home LAN. While the Win box was > >> down, I changed the appropriate entries in /etc/fstab in my FC2 box > >> to reference the new host name. However, after rebooting both > >> systems, the Fedora Core box still appears to be mounting the shares > >> under the old system ID. I have two sets of icons on my KDE > >> desktop: one with the old system name, identified as mounted, and > >> the other with the new system name. I can't dismount the old shares > >> (which don't really exist?) and can't mount the new ones. > >> How do I convince Fedora that the old system name no longer > >> exists, and it's OK to let go of the shares under the old name? > > > > > > Did you change your hosts file and/or DNS when you changed the names? > > > > Paul. > > Thanks, Yang and Paul > Both systems get their IP address from the router, which also serves > as DNS for the LAN. It's probable that the old name is cached there, as > I forgot to reset it, but the shares are identified by system name in > /etc/fstab, so I would have expected that the Fedora box would have > "forgotten" about the old shares. Does smbfs or cifs cache information > on shares across reboots? > Cheers, > Gordon > It's not possible, it has to be some sort of name service that has outdated host information, check your DNS table, WINS, /etc/hosts, NIS, LMHOSTS file, etc, whatever you might be using. Yang
