[Samba] Ubuntu client ddns failure [SOLVED]

Rowland Penny rowlandpenny at googlemail.com
Thu May 22 06:39:11 MDT 2014


On 22/05/14 13:33, L.P.H. van Belle wrote:
> At the install of ubunt i should have ask the domainname.
> Did you enter it? ( i gues not ) common problem, lots of people dont fill anything here.
>
> Louis
>
>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: steve at steve-ss.com [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org]
>> Namens steve
>> Verzonden: donderdag 22 mei 2014 14:29
>> Aan: samba at lists.samba.org
>> Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Ubuntu client ddns failure [SOLVED]
>>
>> 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
>>
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Hi Louis, I don't think that is the problem, as far as I can see, all 
that does is put the fqdn into /etc/hosts

Rowland



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