Unable to resolve host by name

[NoOp]

On 11/25/2008 03:46 PM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- On Tue, 11/25/08, Bob Cortez <rjcortez at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Bob Cortez <rjcortez at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Unable to resolve host by name
>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 5:19 PM
>> Connecting two computers on a local network, both running
>> intrepid.  Had
>> this working in 8.04.
>> 
>> The server is media contents of /etc/hosts includes
>> 
>> 127.0.0.1  localhost media
>> 127.0.1.1  media
>> 
> I think part of your issue is in the above hosts file. IINM, media should only be in the 127.0.1.1. I only have localhost in 127.0.0.1 and my hostname in 127.0.1.1.  HTH,
> 

That's incorrect. The hosts file looks fine.

The issue is most likely:

"media.local::5900"

This should be: media and/or the IP of media.

So, open RDP and :

Host: media
Port: 5900
Connect.

or

Host: <IP address of media>
Port: 5900
Connect.

Make sure that you can actually ping 'media'.