Acessing VMware Ubuntu by server name

[Chris Bia]

Yea. but you must setting in your LAN a DNS server for resolv name->ipif you
have a good router, you can do this via web interface (no all routers permit
to configure this)

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:01 AM, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have Ubuntu running as a VMware vm on a Windows XP box.
>
> I can access services, say Apache, by the vm's IP address, but I would
> like to access them by their machine/domain name.
>
> In other words, use:
>
>  http://server/helpdesk
>
> instead of:
>
>  http://192.168.1.201/helpdesk
>
> Is there a way to do this?
>
> I am using a bridged connection, so the vm has its own IP address.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Marc
>
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