Acessing VMware Ubuntu by server name
marc
gmane at auxbuss.com
Wed Sep 24 18:14:04 UTC 2008
Sven said...
> On 9/24/08, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> Hi Marc
>
> > 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
>
> In Windows XP there is also a hosts file: c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
> Write there IP, hostname and domain; if you need the name resolution only local.
>
> If you need the name resolution in LAN, update an A record in your DNS servers.
DNS in a Windows environment? :-) Editing hosts for each user wouldn't
be usable.
--
Cheers,
Marc
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