-----Original Message----- From: Constant Brouerius van Nidek [mailto:constant@indo.net.id] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 1:43 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] only a very small nuisance

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Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

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On my Laptop which runs 10.0 I found that instead of name of my net (constant.net) the word reached shows up. Same in my Gkrellm header. Looked all over the setup but do not seem to find the

On Friday 03 August 2007, Pete Connolly wrote: place to correct

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this unimportant fact. Somebody could my point in the just direction?

Hi Constant

I had something like this a long time ago, and if my rusty memory serves me correctly it was down to a problem with my networking setup, in particular the DNS settings. Do you have the option to 'change hostname using DHCP' ticked in your network setup?

Cheers

Hi Pete, Must be close to the solution. No idea where to change the hostname using DHCP. Could not fine anything useful. But found out that if I would like to setup a DHCP server the initialization stops with the information: ERROR

Looking at this information I would say that somewhere in my setup a dot has creeped up. A dot but where?

check /etc/hosts and /etc/HOSTNAME...either of those have anything other than the proper hostname of the machine? What does the output of `hostname` show? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

On Friday 03 August 2007, Pete Connolly wrote:

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Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

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On my Laptop which runs 10.0 I found that instead of name of my net (constant.net) the word reached shows up.

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I had something like this a long time ago, and if my rusty memory serves me correctly it was down to a problem with my networking setup, in particular the DNS settings. Do you have the option to 'change hostname using DHCP' ticked in your network setup?

Hi Pete, Must be close to the solution. No idea where to change the hostname using DHCP. Could not fine anything useful. But found out that if I would like to setup a DHCP server the initialization stops with the information: ERROR

Looking at this information I would say that somewhere in my setup a dot has creeped up. A dot but where?

Hi Constant

From memory (I'm working on a Vista machine at the moment, I'm afraid, sorry!) Start YAST->Network Card->Choose 'Traditional Method....'->Edit->Next->Hostname and Name Server. Check if the tick box 'change hostname via DHCP' is ticked. If so, untick it and restart your system.

I think the DHCP server you have is returning invalid data for the hostname, but your system is accepting it anyway and returning to a default ('reached'). Give it a go and let us know. Cheers Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Sunny wrote:

On 8/2/07, Pete Connolly wrote:

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box 'change hostname via DHCP' is ticked. If so, untick it and restart your system.

There is no need to restart the system. It's going to restart the network services, and everything will be OK.

You are correct Sunny, I apologise. In my defence, please bear in mind I'm now an official Vista user, so looking at your computer sideways means a total restart :) Cheers Pete PS: I really miss SUSE Linux. Fingers crossed I'll be on the 10.3 bandwagon in the next few weeks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org