I have a Fedora 13 desktop I have at work that I want to use to back up data off my laptop, also running Fedora 13. I can ping the hostname of the laptop from the desktop, but not the other way round. I don't think I did anything to have the laptop register its hostname with the DNS server. Since my company uses DHCP, I can't just edit the hosts file on the laptop.

I want to be able to use the hostname when I mount the NFS shares for the backup. I also want to run the desktop headless so Remote Desktop needs to be able to find it. Is there a way to force the registration? If I ping the laptop's fully qualified hostname from itself, I get back the correct IP address. If I do the same thing on the desktop, it tells me it can't find its own hostname. I do have the domain name configured in the dns search path under System->Administration-Network

Can you please post your ping results. Also, what is in /etc/hosts for the desktop and laptop?