Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting a Linux workstation to a Windoze server

[Bill Roberts]

On 14:07 Sun 23 Oct     , Andrew Lowe wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	I have the situation where I work that it is a total M$ setup. Our
> workstations use DHCP to grab IP addresses from the Win2003 server. For
> various reasons I want to place a Gentoo box on the network. For some
> reason when I try to bring up the network interface on the Gentoo box,
> which has a dhcp client, the dhcp client times out and I can't obviously
> get an IP address.
>
I'm getting my ip's form a W2k3 server, using dhcpcd as a client.

I put the following in /etd/conf.d/net:

iface_eth0="dhcp"
dhcpcd_eth0="-h $(hostname) -N"

I understand that Gentoo now sends the hostname by default, so the:
    
    "-h $(hostname)"

may not be needed.

Good luck.

Bill Roberts