Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1480 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Regis Matejcik wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 21:04 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
> > I meant to say that formatting and starting over won't help much,
> > whereas unticking "Set hostname from DHCP" might.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. The problem is that the software
> application I'm attmepting to run in the VirtualBox machine requires
> the "Set hostname from DHCP" option to be checked.  When it's
> unchecked, the program (OpenBravo) doesn't run at all. 

Hi Regis

I feel pretty certain that your application does not require that option
to be enabled (how would it even know about it?), but it may well
require your system to have a hostname. 

> For what it's worth, I tried it, it worked, but when I re-checked it -
> back to square one. 

Try setting a hostname manually. 

> I'm not even sure that this naming behavior is the cause of the
> virtual machine not being able to connect to the internet - its just
> the current rabbit hole I'm running down.
>
> Still can't fine a dhcpd.conf in etc.  Could they have stashed it
> inside some other subdirectory under etc.?

Like Carlos said, you have to look on your dhcp SERVER. 



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Per Jessen, Zürich (7.1°C)

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