[Samba] Ubuntu client ddns failure [SOLVED]

[steve]

On 22/05/14 14:22, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 22/05/14 13:19, steve wrote:
>>
>> Nailed it:
>> /etc/hostname has to have the fqdn:
>> lubuntu-laptop.hh3.site
>>
>> So now, hostname returns incorrectly but hostname -s and hostname -f
>> are OK. That gotta be a bug no?
>>
>> Relief.
>> Cheers,
>> Steve
>>
> You beat me to it, I thought that might be a workround, but what does
> opensuse have in /etc/hostname ?
>
> Rowland
Great minds Rowland. . .
openSUSE has the short hostname, as expected.
So, on Ubuntu, hostname is wrong but hostname -f, hostname -d and 
hostname -d are still OK.

Just worried that the wrong entry in /etc/hostname is gonna break 
something we've not met yet.
Cheers,
Steve