I haven't followed this to closely so you might have tried this but 
have you looked at the dhcpcd.cfg file?  In particular:
option 12 "computer"                        # Host Name
option 15 "domain.com"                      # Domain Name
Andy
Weng wrote:
> Stanley, Mike,
> 
> Thank you both for all your hints.
> 
> I have tried your suggestions and other setings, even on different
> machines and still getting weird results.  In some cases, my hostname
> is getting assigned by the DHCP server to something totally different
> than what I have set in the hostname tab in TCPCFG and in LANMAN.INI.
>  In other cases, I have set my Local Domain Name in TCPCFG, saved it,
> bring up TCPCFG to show that it is still correct, reboot and found the
> domain name to be blank in TCPCFG.  I am still digging into this but
> the problem must have something to do with on our Corporate DNS
> servers.  Strange that it works fine with Windows DHCP machines.  Will
> keep you posted.
> 
> Weng...
> 
> 
> --- In os2user{at}yahoogroups.com, "Stanley Sidlov"
 wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:34:16 -0000, Weng wrote:
>>
>>> The only minor issue is when I want to ping another machine (OS/2 or
>>> Windows) from my OS/2 Warp workstation, I have to use fully qualified
>>> names.  For example; ping myPeer.myCorp.com instead of just ping
> myPeer.
>> If you open the java based TCPIP config notebook you will find on
> the Host Names tab, the "Local Domain" and the "Local 
Domain Search
> List" in my case, the domain is the workgroup. in yours it's
> mycompany.com or whatever.   You can specify MULTIPLE domains in the
> Local Domain, separated by periods. You can alternatively used the Lan
> Domain Search List box. Do NOT use both items, Lan Domain Search List
> takes precedence.
>> On my system again, I did this (scribble is a XP box) :
>> [C:\]ping scribble
>> PING scribble.HILLTOP: 56 data bytes
>> 64 bytes from 192.168.2.101: icmp_seq=0. time=0. ms
>> 64 bytes from 192.168.2.101: icmp_seq=1. time=0. ms
>> 64 bytes from 192.168.2.101: icmp_seq=2. time=0. ms
>> 64 bytes from 192.168.2.101: icmp_seq=3. time=0. ms
>> 64 bytes from 192.168.2.101: icmp_seq=4. time=0. ms
>> 64 bytes from 192.168.2.101: icmp_seq=5. time=0. ms
>> 64 bytes from 192.168.2.101: icmp_seq=6. time=0. ms
>>
>> ----scribble.HILLTOP PING Statistics----
>> 7 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 0% packet loss
>> round-trip (ms)  min/avg/max = 0/0/0
>>
> 
> 
> 



 
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