I have made a new contribs for sme8 based on the work of stefano in the bug 2388 (
http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2388).
The purpose of that contribs is to give a name to hosts by the dhcp service in order to avoid the dummy names 'pc-0001, pc-0002....'
I need some of your tests to validate the release. You need 'dag and stephdl' repositories
yum install --enablerepo=stephdl,dag smeserver-dhcp-dns
signal-event dhcp-dns
Of course all is done by a dhcp service so you need to set up one and play with other computers
If all is ok then you may be able to see the name of your computer in the tinydns record
less /var/service/tinydns/root/data
Then you can ping your host by their name directly in your sme console, test it
ping pc_name
if it doesn't work you can take a look to the dhcpd.leases to see if your host is well written in that configuration file with a correct dhcp lease.
less /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases dhcpd record
for sme9 a bug is pending your verification in order to be released
http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2388