Changing system name in network
Yang Xiao
yxiao2004 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 26 16:34:12 UTC 2004
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:28:12 -0400, Gordon Keehn
<gordonkeehn at netzero.net> wrote:
> 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
>
It's not possible, it has to be some sort of name service that has
outdated host information, check your DNS table, WINS, /etc/hosts,
NIS, LMHOSTS file, etc, whatever you might be using.
Yang
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