Re: [SLUG] Linux client and windows dhcp server

[Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This one time, at band camp, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>In my new day job, I'm working in a pretty much all windows shop and 
>I have both a Linux (Ubuntu) and a windows desktop. Both machines get 
>IP addresses using  dhcp from some windows machine.
>
>In addition, the windows machine also manages to publish its name to
>the windows dns server while the Linux machine doesn't.
>
>Does anyone know what I need to do to get the Linux machine to publish
>its name to the windows dns?

In /etc/dhclient.conf, send host-name:

  send host-name "dawn";