Publishing hostname

brgsousa · 07-09-2008, 08:01 AM

Hi,
I need some help publishing a hostname on a network so that other hosts can access my computer through its hostname, not through its ip address.

There is a Windows DNS Server on the network but I am not able to configure it.

How can I do that?

Thanks,
Bruno

acid_kewpie · 07-09-2008, 08:08 AM

You can use the wins components of samba to do this for netbios, but in general it's a horrible thing to want to do, and would only be usable for netbios clients themselves. Use DNS properly, that's what it's there for.

brgsousa · 07-09-2008, 08:47 AM

I can configure my computer only, which I have Ubuntu 8 installed.

I don't have access to the windows dns server.

Wim Sturkenboom · 07-09-2008, 12:56 PM

Ask the system administrator to add the hostname to the DNS server. Did work for me.

acid_kewpie · 07-09-2008, 03:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brgsousa

I can configure my computer only, which I have Ubuntu 8 installed.

I don't have access to the windows dns server.

I appreciate that, but there are viable ways to do things and non-viable ways. Speak to your admins.

farslayer · 07-09-2008, 03:38 PM

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for Linux hosts that don’t have samba running but want to register themselves on a windows DNS server (2003) that is allowing secure dns updates.

http://leo.unstable.be/wordpress/?p=66
doesn't appear to be very automated.. If it works, please let us know.