> > On Mon, 24 May 1999 14:14:12 -0500, you wrote: > >I'm adding a debian workstation to our Windows network, and I'd like to use > >our DHCP server to assign it's ip-address, DNS servers, netmask, etc. Is > >this possible? > > That actually should be no problem at all. However, I did not try it > yet. > > You might want to take a look into RedHat's init scripts that do DHCP. > When I tried out RedHat a few weeks ago, I was impressed that RedHat > not only accepted the IP number offered by DHCP but also did a reverse > DNS lookup and set the host name to what was stored in the DNS. > However, I was not able to actually understand these scripts. > > Doing stuff like that should be possible with Debian too. >
Actually dhcp has a setting which will set the host name. Not much real magic to it.
