[CentOS] CENTOS DHCP Server and windows computer/host name ISSUE
Victor Padro
vpadro at gmail.com
Tue Aug 24 21:09:23 UTC 2010
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:12 PM, linux-crazy <hicheerup at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> We are running few Centos5.4 and windows 2003 instance on CENTOS XEN
> virtualized environment , all the guest are getting the IP/NETWORK/GATEWAY
> setting from the DHCP Server running on CENTOS 5 server and the DNS
> configured on the windows 2003 server.
>
> All of the CENTOS Guests are getting the IP and the host name as per the
> DNS forward look up configured. For example If the CENTOS guest1 get
> x.y.z.1 as an IP and it gets the host name as machine1.example.com and so
> on .
>
>
> But none of the windows guest is getting the hostname or computer name from
> the DHCP server even though its getting the ip from the centos DHCP server
> properly , instead all the windows guest are setting up the hostname or
> computername as ORGNAME-withsomenumbers . eg: techsoft-342156 as a computer
> name .
>
> See at present we are not doing any static mapping of IP/HOSTNAME based on
> windows GUEST MAC address. So statically mapping the hostname/ip with guest
> MAC address is out of question now.
>
>
> Is there is any configuration to be tuned on dhcpd.conf or any files or
> parameter to be tuned on windows 2003 guests to get the hostname from the
> DHCP/DNS . i heard about some option like "dhcpd opt 12" on windows
> regisrty level will do the job , But am blank how to get things done .
>
>
>
>
> Also is there is a way to tune CENTOS DHCP Server to lease the ip to the
> dhcp client in uniform order rather it leases randomly .
>
>
> If any one throws me some light on how to get this done it will be really
> great full for me .
>
> Regards,
> Lingu
>
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