Salam, if you go on further details with dhcp file there is an option in the file that when u allow specific Ips against specific mac addresses, hostname can also be given manually... Regards, Umair Shakil ETD On 9/28/07, Denis <denis.becker at mnsu.edu> wrote: > > Hi - I am using the CentOS v5 desktop installation and am setting up a > new lab for our engineering department. Initially I computers got their > IP addresses and computer names from the DHCP process and the computer > were getting the info from the dynamic pool. These name would be > d-23-76.mnsu.edu, where the d stood for dynamic and 23-76 refered the > IP address of xx.xx.23.76. The computer hostname would show up as > d-23-76. I did not want the computers to get different IP address so I > put the computers onto our DHCP table as manual DHCP clients by > assigning a name and mac address to an IP address. Now the computers > get the correct IP address but the hostname is localhost. > > How can I get the correct name for hostname from DHCP? > > -- > Denis Becker > Information Technology - Engineering > MN State Univ., Mankato > Mankato, MN > ph: 507-389-5617 > fx: 507-389-5002 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070928/5253c3a0/attachment-0005.html>