Changing system name in network

[Gordon Keehn]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> 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.

Thanks, Yang and Paul
    Both systems get their IP address from the router, which also serves 
as DNS for the LAN.  It's probable that the old name is cached there, as 
I forgot to reset it, but the shares are identified by system name in 
/etc/fstab, so I would have expected that the Fedora box would have 
"forgotten" about the old shares.  Does smbfs or cifs cache information 
on shares across reboots?
    Cheers,
Gordon