When trying to access my desktop from my laptop using the FQDN (which 
should be jonathan.mezach.lan) it doesn't work. However, when accessing 
it by IP (\\192.168.0.254) it works fine. I also noticed that the 
following is in /etc/resolv.conf:

nameserver 192.168.0.1
search mezach.lan

So it seams that its getting the right domain name supplied by the DHCP 
server.

Chris Buechler wrote:

>On 9/27/05, Jonathan Mezach <jmezach at home dot nl> wrote:
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>> Hmm, it used to work, but you might be right that it doesn't show up in the
>>leases file.
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>I didn't think it ever did, but I know for a fact it doesn't now. 
>There's been some other recent discussion on this here on the list.
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>>It should still however show up in the DNS, but unfortunately
>>thats not the case. When trying to ping my machine using its hostname,
>>Windows says it can't find the hostname. When using nslookup it requests the
>>IP from my router (m0n0wall.mezach.lan) but it says it cannot find the
>>hostname because its a non-existent domain.
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>what's the full hostname being shown by the Linux box?  If it's not
>the same domain, or a domain in the search list of the Windows box,
>it's not going to find it by just name alone.  This could have changed
>during your Linux upgrade (though it should pick up its default domain
>from DHCP, that can be overridden by the client and I have no idea how
>that works on Linux).  Try to hit it by FQDN, i.e.
>linuxbox.example.local.
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>I'm also wondering if your Samba got broken during the Linux upgrade,
>since if it's acting like a proper Windows SMB server, it should
>answer NetBIOS b-node broadcasts for name resolution (which might be
>why it worked before).
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>If you try to get to the Linux box from Windows by its IP address,
>does it work?  i.e. \\192.168.1.2 or whatever.
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>-Chris
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