Acessing VMware Ubuntu by server name

[marc]

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