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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: Jim Danvers on November 01, 2003, 10:15:21 PM
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Folks...
Question: Anyone know if / how to get 6.0 boxes to assign client machines on the lan interface to use thier ~hostname~ vs. what appears to be an SME/dhcp server generated (generic) pc-001 style name??
I did a little searching in here first (I know the rules! ;) ) and came up with a few threads - these two in particular:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=18271.msg71709#msg71709
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=18271.msg71709#msg71709
... Shad Lords contrib (dhcp v3) seems to be the way to go for this w/5.6 - anyone know if it'll work w/6.0? Or is it not supposed to be an issue w/6.0? I'm running a real basic setup in here - sme 6.0 box as server/gateway, standard 192.168.x.x addressing, and handing out addresses to internal side machines via dhcp. The pc-xxx thing is most noticable when ssh'ing into one of my servers... it always tells me that I was last logged on from pc-xxx.... ;( If I want to do some cursory log checking of who else may have been logged on using 'last' for instance... I also get this style listing of names. I would like to be able to see the real host names of machines. ;)
Thanks...
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( I'll mosey on over to Shad's place to see if there is any note / update about it working w/6.0 or not... ) (( but will look for followups here too!! ))
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( ...talking to myself.... )
'K - I just went to Shad's house at http://lordsfam.net/search.php?query=dhcp&type=all&mode=search and grabbed to e-smith rpm and just closed my eyes and 'installed' it (rpm -Uvh filename). No dice.... actually it broke my dhcp server. ( wouldn't restart.... ) Fortunately a rpm -e filename seems to have taken me back to square one (I have yet to reboot the box) but the dhcp server does stop and restart ok now after un-installing - so I'm ~assuming~ that all is ok. How about a 'readme' or how-to on the contrib maybe??
.... back to looking around. Fortunately I'm playing on a 6.0 box that I can blow up!
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I have just what your looking for but I can't remember where I got it from :-(
It is written by: Thierry Quaak (aka kikiche) and Sebastien Dacquin (aka sdak)
It consists of:
# - wol-0.6.0-3.i386.rpm
# - perl-Net-Ping-2.24-1.i386.rpm
# - e-smith-dhcpmanager-.noarch.rpm
If you want it I can email it to you (34k Zip file). Let me know off list to save clutter. Respond on list if it does the deed.
HTH
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# This tool help you to manage your dhcp clients over the network.
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# Requires
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# You need
# - wol-0.6.0-3.i386.rpm - wol (Wake On Lan)
# - perl-Net-Ping-2.24-1.i386.rpm - The perl librairie to process Ping
# - e-smith-dhcpmanager-.noarch.rpm - the e-smith contrib
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# Installation
# ------------
# during the installation of wol, you'll receive some injurial warning
# about a non existant user called 'duke'.
Hi Guys try this.
http://www.developit.fr/FichePratique/SMEServer/
# Ignore the warning. It is still working with it ;)
rpm -Uvh wol-0.6.0-3.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh perl-Net-Ping-2.24-1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh e-smith-dhcpmanager-.noarch.rpm
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# Where to go
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# Go in the server manager of you SME box : http://:980
# You will find a new section in "Configuration" called "DHCP client manager"
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# Then follow the links.
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# Attention : Be patient, the grid can take several seconds to appear because
# we have to perform a ping on all the computers !
#
# Thierry Quaak (aka kikiche) and Sebastien Dacquin (aka sdak)
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That dhcp manager panel is the best thing since sliced bread.
Absolutely top work.
Installed it on 6b3 without problem and rearranged the server-manager list with:
/etc/e-smith/events/actions/navigation-conf
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I am sure interested in the zip with the packages, i can't find them all.