Changing system name in network [Resolved]

[Jeff Vian]

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 11:21, Gordon Keehn wrote:
> Gordon Keehn wrote:
> 
> > 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
> >
>     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
> 

It sounds like the router had the name cached, and had to be reset to
drop the old name and add the new.