Miami Q's.

[sdesros]

I'm having some issues with Miami and Samba I think.

I think my main problem is I can't seem to get a hostname set with MIAMI.

Background:
I'm sharing my cable connection with a Linksys router (model no. BESFR41 I think...  something like that.)

Anyway, I've got it configured for a DHCP connection.  Everything works great with PC's, Macs and my system.  Although Miami 3.2 complains when it's trying to retreive the system's hostname via DHCP.  So I turned off the "dynamic" hostname and configured it with a default name (ie: Amiga).

Now, if I do "MiamiPing Amiga", it tells me that the host is not found.  I can't ping "Amiga" from other machines on the lan, and my router's DHCP client table has a blank name next to my system's IP address.

What's wrong here?

I figure, if I can't reference the system by it's hostname, then I won't be able to get any further with SAMBA?  I did configure the "netbios name" in SWAT to be the same name as my hostname.  But nevertheless, I can't seem to find it via nay system, even the same one via smbfs.

Am I missing something blatenly obvious?

[sdesros]

I already have the keys for Miami 3.2b.  I don't need DX, seeing as I don't want to set up my amiga as a DHCP server, the DHCP server is my Linksys Router.  Miami 3.2's DHCP client seems to work fine.

I've done a little more playing around with my Lan.  My PC's can ping each other using Hostname and/or ip addresses.  They cannot find my Sun sparc or my Pegasos (that's using Miami) using the hostname I wrote.

My Peg and Sun can't ping anything in my lan by their hostnames, just their ip addresses.  (I have been able to find my PC's through Samba however.)

When I lookup on my router's DHCP client's table, both my peg and sun have a blank name as the hostname.  The pcs have their hostnames displayed are fine though.

P.S.
I just fired up my OSX system, and it does the same thing as the Sun and Peg.  Anyone have any suggestions?  Or should I just give up trying to get DHCP running and set everything up with static ip's?  *shudder*.