How to update Windows DNS server with Linux DHCP client hostname?

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri May 18 23:29:56 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 16:41 -0400, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> 
> Our IT department is a "Windows only" department.  I'm wondering if
> the DNS server picks up the (Windows) PC hostnames from an SMB
> advertisement of some sort.

Are they doing it the other way around?  (The DHCP server telling the
clients the hostname to use - along with their IP.)

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