Netbios/Partial Qualified Domain name for Mac?

Is it possible to set a Netbios/Partial Qualified Domain name for a Mac the way one sets it for a PC? If so, where can this be set? Apparently, this is what my router uses to report clients connected by DHCP.
Mike

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How to set Netbios/Partial Qualified Domain name for a Mac?

Is it possible to set a Netbios/Partial Qualified Domain name for a Mac the way one sets it for a PC? If so, where can this be set? Apparently, this is what my router uses to report clients connected by DHCP.
Mike

You're looking for something completely different if
what you're after is to have your DHCP server (your
router) report your computer name.
yep - that's what I'm looking for but everything else didn't pan out so I'm following up the suggestion of our IT guy (which is that it reports the Netbios name).
I don't know what brand or model of router you're
using but with a Linksys brand router it reports the
yep - I've got a Linksys, about 2 years old (802.11b).
computer name, which is set on your Mac under Apple
menu --> System Preferences... --> Sharing. The
Linksys router will report the computer name
typically found under Status --> Local Network -->
DHCP Clients Table.
nope - I've got it set as "Michael Levin Laptop", but the Linksys router shows it (and all of the other Macs on the network) as "¸#Ð„ª"... Any way to debug this?
What you'll notice is that none of this has anything
to do with Windows. Today's basic networking is
platform agnostic.
I thought so; it was a desperation move, based on my IT person's suggestion...
Thanks,
Mike

Netbios/Partial Qualified Domain name for a Mac?

Is it possible to set a Netbios/Partial Qualified Domain name for a Mac the way one sets it for a PC? If so, where can this be set? Apparently, this is what my router uses to report clients connected by DHCP.
Mike

that did not work - I have a name entered in the
Sharing preference menu, and it does not show up.
Did you try setting the "DHCP Client ID" in the Network pane of System Preferences?
Even doing this may not work though... I know I had trouble getting a host name to show up correctly at my work. The DHCP server had picked up the previous name of my system and there didn't seem to be anything I could do from the client side to get it changed. The old system name was associated with my machines MAC address in the DHCP server and nothing I did from the client seemed to allow me to refresh the name the server had already latched onto. The network guys eventually had to delete the entry for my system off of the DHCP server and then allow my system to request a new IP address and refresh it's entry in the server. I have no idea how you might do something like this on a LinkSys router. I suppose the DHCP servers that run on these little personal routers are pretty rudimentary. I guess you might try doing some sort of reset on the router to see if it would reload client names. Or if you have your router configred to only allow connections from specific MAC addresses you might try deleting the entry for your Mac and then adding it back to see if that would trigger it to pick up a new client name.
sorry; I started a new thread because my question
is now much more focused. Someone told me the
Linksys router gets that info from the netbios name,
so I figured I should ask that specific question
with that specific subject title - maybe someone
knows how to specify this netbios name for a Mac,
but might not know or care anything about routers
and my specific problem.
It seems understandable that PCs would send their NetBIOS names to a DHCP server... but it seems to me that a Mac would send it's "sharing" name. I doubt that a LinkSys router would specifically request a NetBIOS name, but I don't really know... I don't have any experience with them. I suppose you could try turning on "Window Sharing" in system preferences to see it that made you Mac look more like a Windows box to the router. :^\
Steve

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I get the following error msg after selecting the features:
System doesn't have Fully Qualified Domain Name.
Setup Fully Qualified Domain Name and then continue installation.
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Aron

Hi!
Probably you could enter the hostname in c:/Windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts
(maybe the directory is called WINNT, I have no XP here)
hth
Chris

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I have the same problem?
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http://www.dot.tk/en/pageA00.html
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Hello, I am checking why the response time of the display of the pages of the sites are slow, then I checked the error_log file in /var/log/httpd and I got this texts: (I am hosting 3 sites in the server)
[Mon May 14 21:21:37 2007] [alert] httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
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Processing config file: /etc/httpd/sites/0003any_80default.conf
Processing config file: /etc/httpd/sites/virtualhostglobal.conf
[Mon May 14 21:21:37 2007] [alert] httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
[Mon May 14 21:21:38 2007] [notice] Apache/1.3.33 (Darwin) mod_jk/1.2.6 DAV/1.0.3 mod_ssl/2.8.24 OpenSSL/0.9.7l PHP/4.4.4 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon May 14 21:21:38 2007] [notice] Accept mutex: flock (Default: flock)
[Mon May 14 22:12:18 2007] [error] [client 10.129.0.37] File does not exist: /Library/WebServer/Documentsescuelamovil/robots.txt
[Mon May 14 22:12:18 2007] [error] [client 10.129.0.37] File does not exist: /Library/WebServer/Documentsescuelamovil/error.html
with the alert:
[Mon May 14 21:21:37 2007] [alert] httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
the virtual host file (virtualhostglobal.conf) is:
# This file is auto-generated by the Server Admin Web
# backend plugin whenever settings are saved.
# The Listen and NameVirtualHost directives are generated
# based on the VirtualHost directive inside
# each site configuration file found in this directory.
# Please add appropriate Listen and NameVirtualHost directives
# if a site is manually edited
# i.e. the site is moved from sites to sites_disabled (or vice versa)
# or the site's Virtual Host ip address and/or port is modified
# Last updated at 2007-05-07 14:22:34 -0500
Listen 10.129.0.37:16080
NameVirtualHost 10.129.0.37:16080
Listen *:16080
NameVirtualHost *:16080
how can I correct this alert?
thanks
Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9) 4GB DDR SDRAM, MAC OS X Server
Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9) 4GB DDR SDRAM, MAC OS X Server

>how can I correct this alert?
Fix your DNS.
This non-fatal error is Apache's way of telling you that it can't work out the hostname of the machine it's running on.
It uses reverse DNS to determine this information. If you don't have a reverse DNS entry for your server's IP address, this is what you get.
Fix your DNS and the alert will go away, or just ignore it.

Error in Installing- System dosen't have fully qualified domain name.

When I try to install Java Enterprise System in my PC, I get the following error message and cannot proceed further:
System dosen't have fully qualified domain name.
Setup fully qualified domain name and then continue instalation.
Please help me to solve this problem.
About my PC:
Windows XP Home edition
1 GB memory
Thanks.

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BI 7.0 Java Add-in without fully qualified domain name

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Question about domain name and .mac

my wife and i are going to move to London and we want a website to update people. now it would be a lot easier to say, "oh, just go to www.domainx.com". (with domainx being whatever domain we buy) rather than saying, "oh go to mac.homepage.iweb.ilife.joseph.page1.com" or whatever massive name they choose. now i would like to publish to .mac because of what they allow you to do. is there anyway i could buy domainx.com and when they go to domainx.com it will send them to my .mac published site. i hope you understand the question. i don't want to be limited by domainx.com but i want the luxury of that short domain name. any help would be amazing. thanks so much!
~joseph

1. Search this forum. It's discussed every minute. The topic is also above yours. Please have a look.
[Publishing to .mac - how many domains can i have?|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1487530&tstart=0]
2. iWeb publishes to web.mac.com/yourdotMacId.
So there really is not much to remember.
3. Go to the dotMac Help. It's explained there.
1. [Setting up .Mac to use a personal domain name|http://help.apple.com/mac2/1/help/member/pgs/gen367.html]
You can set up your .Mac account to use a personal domain name by registering the...
2. [About .Mac and personal domain names|http://help.apple.com/mac2/1/help/member/pgs/gen366.html]
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Ip address to fully qualified domain name

Dear friends, I am unable to get the correct fully qualified domain name from IP address. Please help. I have already spent more than a day searching for the solution on these forums and on google. So now only option remaining is help from you friends.
I think I need to explain my set up first.
The machine runs on Solaris8 & is part of corporate intranet. Java version 1.4.2. I am just a developer (cannot touch networking) and here is what I know about its network set up.
The machine has a network alias ("bluesky"). So when I access it thru telnet using VPN, the command line shows "bluesky" at the prompt. There are at least two domain names that lead to this machine. One is bluesky.XXX.com and another is somesubdomain.yyy.com.
I have a piece of existing Java code that produces the IP number of this
machine. I want to convert it to its domain name (either bluesky.xxx.com or the other one).
When I connect by VPN to the network and use nslookup against the IP on my XP laptop, it displays the full domain (somesubdomain.yyy.com). When I do the same thing after I join the intranet directly (not thru VPN), it again shows the full domain, but the different one bluesky.xxx.com.
Some of the code I tried:
Try 1:
String ip = "";//valid IP here
InetAddress ia = InetAddress.getByName(ip);
String hostname1 = ia.getCanonicalHostName();
String hostname2 = ia.getHostName();When I connect to intranet (without VPN) and run the above code on my laptop, hostname1 and hostname2 both generate "bluesky.xxx.com". This is what I want.
But when I run the code on the remote machine, both strings are only
"bluesky". When I run the code on my laptop after logging into the network using VPN, both produce the second fully qualified domain name. That would also be OK for me if I can get it on remote machine.
Try 2:
I added the following line before the above code (based on forum search).
System.setProperty("sun.net.spi.nameservice.provider.1", "dns,sun");The result was same as Try1.
Try 3:
InetAddress[] iaa = InetAddress.getAllByName(ip);
for(int i=0;i<iaa.length;i++){
System.out.println(iaa.getCanonicalHostName());
System.out.println(iaa[i].getHostName());
When ran on laptop, it iterates only once (I expected it to iterate twice) and produces bluesky.xxx.com for both println statements.
On remote machine, it again produces only "bluesky".
It's getting frustating. Please help. Thanks.

Following could be the reason
When you are running the InetAddress api's to get the domain name on your laptop (windows machine), It is not hitting the DNS server. It is just returning the domian name what is mention in the Laptop configuration. If you are making a security check based on that, then anyone can spoof up his domain name locally and get the desired domain.
When you run the application at some remote machine, it actually resolves the ip address with DNS server.
You may want to use the following code to hit DNS server all the time. But with this I have a issue. I am not able to get the domain when I am on VPN. I have to find the exact reason for this issue.
private static String domainFmReverseDNS(String hostIp) throws IOException
//Record opt = null;
Resolver res = new ExtendedResolver();
Name name = new Name(getReversedIP(hostIp)+ ".in-addr.arpa");
short type = Type.PTR;
short dclass = DClass.IN;
Record rec = Record.newRecord(name, type, dclass);
Message query = Message.newQuery(rec);
Message response = res.send(query);
Record[] answers = response.getSectionArray(Section.ANSWER);
if (answers.length == 0)
System.out.println("reverseDns did not find anything");
return ("NotFound");
else
System.out.println("reverseDns found the value :-)");
return answers[0].rdataToString();
private static String getReversedIP(String ip)
StringTokenizer st = new java.util.StringTokenizer(ip, ".");
String reversedIp=st.nextToken();
while ( st.hasMoreTokens())
reversedIp = st.nextToken()+"."+reversedIp;
return reversedIp;
}

Problem connecting through RFC with fully qualified domain name

I am using the .NET Connector and RFC to call a BAPI
I use a fully qualified domain name in the form <DOMAIN>\<HOST>
The RFC seems to have problems with this form of address. It produces the following execption in my .NET code.
SAP.Connector.RfcCommunicationException: Connect to SAP gateway failed
LOCATION    CPIC (TCP/IP) on local host
ERROR       hostname 'DOCUNET_AG\DWSAP' unknown
TIME        Mon Feb 05 11:57:20 2007
RELEASE     640
COMPONENT   NI (network interface)
VERSION     37
RC          -2
MODULE      ninti.c
LINE        329
DETAIL      NiPGetHostByName2: hostname 'DOCUNET_AG\DWSAP' not found
SYSTEM CALL gethostbyname_r
ERRNO       11004
ERRNO TEXT WSANO_DATA: Valid name,
   at SAP.Connector.SAPConnection.ThrowRfcException(RFC_ERROR_INFO_EX rfcerrInfo
, Encoding encoding, String languangeCode)
   at SAP.Connector.SAPConnection.Open()
What can I do that I am able to use a fully qualifies domain name in this way?
Thank you very much for your answers.
Mirco

Hi Mirco,
additional to my first reply, open a shell window and type
<b>
ping <computername>
</b>
or
<b>
ping -a <ipaddress>
</b>
so you should get the full qualified name for the host.
Regards
Holger

Finding IP and fully qualified domain name.

Okay i have a java program taht runs on ubuntu the latest version. I got java 6.0 using apt-get install. oKay now i wrote a server socket program. But what it also should do is get the fully qualified domain name of the system and its ip address. So now my system is called "tools.myproject.com" okay. I dont have system registered under a domain or somethign but i specify it in my /etc/hosts file. since linux also uses the /etc/hosts file to resolve domain names. Now is there anyway in java that i can get this name. If not that then is there a way i can get the ip of this machine, which is not the loop back address. When i do the InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostaddress() method or whatever thats there in the documentation i get the loop back address thats specified thats 127.0.0.1 and the canonicalname for taht is some rubbish that i dont need. So can anyone help me out.
Also i found some NetworkInterface class from which i can get the IP Address of the machine. Also the Canonical Name i get from the IpAddress does it look at the /etc/hosts file or the DNS server?
Thanks!
Edited by: mynameissriharsha on Jul 14, 2008 2:42 PM

Try this
InetAddress[] inet = InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostAddress());
for (int x = 0; x < inet.length; x++)
System.out.println
("IP " + (x + 1) + ": " + inet[x].toString().substring(1));
}

How to set-up Fully Qualified Domain Name in WIN2k3?

Dear Experts,
Admin, please rederict if this is the wrong forum.
I need to set up a FQDN for our one host demo system running on Windows Server 2k3. How do I set it up (without compromizing our system)? On this host we have ECC 6.0 and GRC running.
We don't have a registred domain.
Kind Regards,
Vit Vesely

Hi,
Set your domain name as FQDN (fully qualified domain name.)
1) start the transaction RZ10.
2) select INSTANCE Profile name where your server name is given.
3) Select Extended Maintenance.
4) Click on change button.
5) Change parameter icm/host_name_full to FQDN
6) Copy your settings with new version number.
7) Activate that version.
8) Restart your WAS (Transaction code SMICM -> Administration Menu).
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/default_host/sap/bc/bsp/sap
/default_host/sap/bc/bsp/sap/system
/default_host/sap/bc/bsp/sap/public/bc
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/default_host/sap/public/bsp/sap/public/bc
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Set Request Hanlder Class, add Standard Class provided by SAP to default\sap\bc\bsp\sap service. Right click on default\sap\bc\bsp\sap service service.
Now select display service, go to Handler Tag, and add the class CL_HTTP_EXT_BSP, which is a default HTTP request handler class.
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see:
434918 Configuration for fully qualified host names for BSP
654326 Domain restrictions in a portal environment
654982 URL requirements due to Internet standards
677118 SP31 >: Fully Qualified Domain Names Check
763427 Error message for domain name with underscore
Regards
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Fully Qualified Domain Name - required ??

Hi,
We are implementing SAP in a 3 system landscape with AIX.
All these systems are not in a domain at the moment, but they are networked.
Is it completely necessary to have these systems in a Windows / Unix domain to run the systems? What basic settings would be necessary to go-live?
I have made changes in the /etc/hosts file to include domain (for example: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx gilsaped gilsaped.xxxxxxxxxxxx.com). What else is required to make our portal system URL to be called with the fully qualified domain name?
Thanks in advance for your help,
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What else is required to make our portal system URL to be called with the fully qualified domain name?
Besides the hosts file entry you will also require a DNS entry.
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