EmuBite Wrote: > Hello Slim Devices Community. > > I'm a proud owner of a Squeezebox 2. My wife bought me the SB2 for my > birthday this year. Don't know how I lived without one. > > I control my SB2 using my laptop (Apple PowerBook) in my living room. > My Slimserver is an XP machine in my office. I have other devices on > my network, and DHCP is the easiest way to assign IPs. Problem is my > Slimserver machine every once in a while changes IP addresses, and I'm > forced to change the address of my Slimserver bookmark on my laptop. > (FYI, I'm using a Linksys WRT54GS router....) > > Is it possible to bookmark my Slimserver using some sort of ".local" > convention? I've tried my laptop's name followed by .local, but no > dice (i.e., http://teletran-1.local:9000). Is there something I'm > missing? I know I could just assign all of my devices static IPs, but > I thought I'd try and easier method first. - Assign a fixed IP address to the PC where SlimServer runs. Just make sure this IP address is outside the range of IP addresses being assigned by the DHCP server. The rest of the network can continue to use dynamically assigned addresses.
- See if your DHCP server permits you to assign 'reserved' DHCP leases by MAC address. This is much the same as using a static IP address, but it has the advantage of being centrally manageable. If you need to change your network's addressing scheme, then you may be able to do it all from the DHCP server. - Address the HTTP server of SlimServer by name. Your syntax shown above is wrong. Use http://teletran-1:9000. This is how you should be addressing the SlimServer anyway, even with a reserved or static IP address. Then if you ever change the IP assignment, you're still good. Servers generally should have fixed IP addresses, so that they stay put. It makes troubleshooting service problems easier since you can either address the machine by name or by its known IP address when name resolution fails. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18470 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
