On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 00:40, Danesh Daroui wrote: > Peter Arremann wrote: > > >On Saturday 01 January 2005 16:22, Danesh Daroui wrote: > > > > > >>I did change host name in system-config-network, but it is not still in > >>routers clients list and host name for my fedora machine is still blank, > >>is it important at all ? > >>Yeah, samba is installed in my LAN. > >> > >> > > > >I don't see if you already answered the question, but are you using the router > >as your dhcp and dns server right? > >Windows automatically updates a dns server if set through dhcp with the name > >(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q228803/) in such a configuration. Look at > >the manpage of dhclient.conf - especially the DYNAMIC DNS section... that > >setups the same in Linux. > > > >Peter. > > > > > > > > Well, I think my router acts only as a DHCP server and not DNS server. > However, its roll is a DNS proxy which re-send all DNS queries to my > ISP's DNS server. If I am wrong please correct me. > I have a network that uses DHCP, and the server is a W2k machine. I have noticed that a linux box does not work with W2k DHCP properly ( it gets an IP but the DNS is not updated) and I have to allocate a static IP. However a W2k or XP box does work with a Linux based DHCP (the DNS is updated automatically). Don't know if this helps, but it looks like a similar problem. Rob
