Changing system name in network

[Paul Howarth]

Gordon Keehn wrote:
> Hi, Guys
>    Unforeseen (and unfortunate) circumstances led me to the point where 
> I had to change the system name of one of the PCs (Win2K), with several 
> shared resources, on my home LAN.  While the Win box was down, I changed 
> the appropriate entries in /etc/fstab in my FC2 box to reference the new 
> host name.  However, after rebooting both systems, the Fedora Core box 
> still appears to be mounting the shares under the old system ID.  I have 
> two sets of icons on my KDE desktop:  one with the old system name, 
> identified as mounted, and the other with the new system name.  I can't 
> dismount the old shares (which don't really exist?) and can't mount the 
> new ones.
>    How do I convince Fedora that the old system name no longer exists, 
> and it's OK to let go of the shares under the old name?

Did you change your hosts file and/or DNS when you changed the names?

Paul.