[Spacewalk-list] Client hostname resolution

[Deevee]

Hello Adrian,

I had a similar problem.  Adding the hostname into /etc/hosts should  
fix this.

-dv


On Sep 4, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Adrián Márques wrote:

> Hello there.
>
> I'm trying out spacewalk on CentOs 5.2 and all my clients' hostnames  
> and system names are being registered as 'unknown' on the server.  
> What could be the reason? How does the server determine the client's  
> hostname?
>
> I suppose this is part of the problem: my systems are connected  
> through a windows network and I can't resolve their hostnames. Well,  
> actually I can now, but it took configuring samba to publish the  
> netbios name, doing hostname resolution through WINS and even then  
> I'm not resolving the FQDNs (clientname.domainname) but the netbios  
> names (clientname).
>
> I'd appreciate any comments on this.
>
> Thanks for you attention.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Adrián.
>
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