Aaron Mulder wrote:
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But WRT the hostname, what I meant was that if your machine is called "workstation" you should be able to "ping workstation", and if that doesn't work, add an entry to /etc/hosts so that "ping workstation" hits 127.0.0.1. It's a little chancy on Windows because I think Windows ping will resolve and use SMB names whereas Java won't (though it also may be different with/without WINS) -- I'm not sure how to do a good test on Windows.
if you want to lookup DNS names you must use nslookup on windows and not ping. if you are using the ping comand, your workstation name will always be resolved as 10.0.0.1. at least if using the ping comand try using a FDQN (your workstation name + your domain name).
if you still want to use the more simple syntax of ...
-> ping [my workstation name]
... you can try to add the following entry to ...
-> $WINDIR\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
------8<-----------8<----------8<------------8<----------- 192.168.120.10 foo.bar.com foo 192.168.120.10 foo.bar.com. # ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ # (1) (2) (3) # # 1) your IP address. # 2) your workstation- + domainname. # 3) your workstation name.
------>8----------->8---------->8------------>8-----------
i've tested all of the above examples on my w2k machine.
regards
daniel s. haischt --
