Dell Wyse ThinLinux 1.0.3 Administrator’s Guide

The Other Settings page enables you to enter the host name of the thin client to add or delete the additional entries to the /ect/hosts file in the device.

Any changes made through Other Settings screen is saved and continued for the built-in thinuser. The Other Settings screen is available only in Admin mode

Figure 1. Other settings

• Contact DHCP server: If you set the host name of the thin client by selecting the DHCP server option, the host name is set to the standard host-name tag received from the DHCP server. If the DHCP server does not provide the host-name tag, then the device retains the previously set host name.
• DNS reverse lookup: . If you select DNS reverse lookup option to enter the host name of the thin client , a reverse DNS lookup operation is performed using thin clients existing IPv4 address of the thin client and the host name is then set to the received value.
  • NOTE: The previous host name is retained if the device cannot perform a successful reverse DNS look up operation due to reasons such as, network connection is not established, DNS servers are not established or are invalid, and the IP address is not included in the DNS server’s list.
• Derive from MAC address: Select the Derive from MAC address option to specify the thin clients host name. You can specify the thin clients host name by using the MAC address. The eth0 of the thin client interfaces with the MAC address. It creates the thin clients host name by extracting the MAC address from its field separators, such as, (:) and the MAC address is prefixed with the string LWT. For example, a device with MAC address of 00:80:64:c1:8b:14 has MAC derived host name as LWT008064c18b14. Manually specify the device host name should be used with caution. If the manually named device is to be used as a seed device for Merlin image pulling. The changed host name is pushed to other devices resulting all devices end up with the same host name. Only through device factory reset can recover the default back by using MAC Address
• Use the following name: This option enables you to enter the preferred host name in the box provided. When you log in to the session, the screen displays the previous host name in the box and in the Terminal option.
  • NOTE: The host name entered is not authenticated, if the string entered has a white space. The first part of the string up to the first white space is used to set the host name of the devices. All white spaces at the beginning of the string are ignored and the maximum host name string size is 64.