On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, eoghan wrote:
Im wondering if someone can point me in the correct direction. I have set my
host name in my hosts file as
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost
192.168.1.35 home.nathaniel localhost
So I wanted to use this to get my freeBSD machine from another computer on my
network. If it try http://home.nathaniel/ on the freeBSD machine it works
perfect.
But if I try from my mac i get the usual cannot find server. The ServerName
in my httpd.conf is home.nathaniel.
Id like to get it sending this name so I can also use it with samba like:
\\home.nathaniel\public
Instead of using the machines IP address. Thanks for any help.
I think you're on the wrong track, domain names doesn't work like
host names for samba clients. Your BSD machine never sends its
name. There's no way other clients can resolve the host name.
You need to tell the clients on your network about the hostnames
of other hosts.
I don't know about Mac, but even Windows has a hosts file in which
you can list known hosts on the network without the need to setup
dns. This is fine if you have only a few hosts.
Cheers, Erik
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