On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 11:21, Gordon Keehn 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? > > Thanks, > > Gordon Keehn > > > It appears it WAS the router's nameserver, although I'm a bit > puzzled as to HOW. Especially as I was able to print on the shared > printer. In any case, I reset the router and rebooted fedora, and > everything came up happy. Thanks, Paul and Yang, for your suggestions. > Cheers, > Gordon > It sounds like the router had the name cached, and had to be reset to drop the old name and add the new.
