In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joel Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2006, at 3:43 AM, brian d foy wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ray > > Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sep 26, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Joseph Alotta wrote: > >> ... to connect to the MySQL database. When run from your wife's > >> computer, you'll have to change the 'localhost' to the IP address > > Just use the zero-conf Bonjour stuff. Find your server's name and > > append .local to it. Look in the Sharing control panel for the right > > name. > > $host = 'albook.local'; > Okay, looking around the 'net for zero-conf answers the old nagging > question of why my machine refers to itself as something.local when I > have a valid dns name set for it. In that case, use the host name you've configured for it. :)