hostname problems

[Alan Lakin <ajlakin@blueyonder.co.uk>]

I have a small network : (teal) Debian Woody, (avocet) Mandrake 9.0 and a 
smoothwall server running dhcp.

The network works just fine i.e. teal and woody can see each other and both 
can see the internet through the smoothwall router. The problem I am having 
is that upon boot I get errors in the syslog from any programs that use 
get_local_host eg. lpd and checkpc say "teal.lakin bad". I have tried using 
(in the /etc/hostname) teal, teal.lakin,teal.lakin.co.uk. I have also 
appended details in the /etc/hosts file with the currently allocated IP 
address.

The reason that this is a problem is that I want to setup a network printer 
(attached to avocet) but it seems that all the tools related to printing 
error.gethostname() is usually the common factor in the error messages. Any 
pointers would be welcome.

Thanks.

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		Alan Lakin
	Wallington, Surrey, England