Changing system name in network
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Thu Aug 26 15:00:52 UTC 2004
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.
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