Changing system name in network [Resolved]

[Gordon Keehn]

Jeff Vian wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 11:21, Gordon Keehn wrote:
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>>Gordon Keehn wrote:
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>>>Hi, Guys
>>>   Unforeseen (and unfortunate) circumstances led me to the point 
>>>where I had to change the system name of one of the PCs (Win2K), with 
>>>several shared resources, on my home LAN.  While the Win box was down, 
>>>I changed the appropriate entries in /etc/fstab in my FC2 box to 
>>>reference the new host name.  However, after rebooting both systems, 
>>>the Fedora Core box still appears to be mounting the shares under the 
>>>old system ID.  I have two sets of icons on my KDE desktop:  one with 
>>>the old system name, identified as mounted, and the other with the new 
>>>system name.  I can't dismount the old shares (which don't really 
>>>exist?) and can't mount the new ones.
>>>   How do I convince Fedora that the old system name no longer exists, 
>>>and it's OK to let go of the shares under the old name?
>>>   Thanks,
>>>Gordon Keehn
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>>    It appears it WAS the router's nameserver, although I'm a bit 
>>puzzled as to HOW.  Especially as I was able to print on the shared 
>>printer.  In any case, I reset the router and rebooted fedora, and 
>>everything came up happy.  Thanks, Paul and Yang,  for your suggestions.
>>    Cheers,
>>Gordon
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>It sounds like the router had the name cached, and had to be reset to
>drop the old name and add the new.
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    Ah, therein lies the problem.  Since I specified the new name in 
/etc/fstab, even if the router had the old name cached I wouldn't have 
expected anyone to retrieve it.  Still, I'm not going to lose any slepp 
over it.
    Cheers,
Gordon