[nflug] pulling computer name from network

[Cyber Source]

Cyber Source wrote:

> Michael Getman wrote:
>
>> I recently took a Fedora core 4 system I had loaded at home into work 
>> as a spare workstation. When I plugged it into the network it 
>> automatically pulled down a computer name from the domain(?).
>>
>> I have since loaded an old print server we had at work with the same 
>> OS and when I plugged it into the network I didn't get the same affect.
>>
>> Can someone tell me where in FC4 to enable this for the latest box?
>>
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> Sorry for the blank reply, clickin too fast. Anywho, interesting 
> question. I believe this was an option that you checked when you 
> installed one versus the other. I have noticed this on one of our 
> dumps here and I don't see any gui way to change it and I have not 
> been able to figure out what man page might give more info but... I 
> think the option your looking for is "DHCP_HOSTNAME=yourhostname". Put 
> that in your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file. You could 
> check both boxes, if the one that works has that line and the one that 
> doesn't, doesn't have that line, then were on to something. Let me 
> know, as I would like some clarification on this as well.
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ya know, sometimes the hardest things to see are right in front of your 
face. In neat, double click on the device, put the hostname under 
Hostname (optional) under DHCP settings, this will write the 
DHCP_HOSTNAME config line in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0(?)
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