Assigning names to machines local XP network.
- From: msch-prv@xxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 30 Apr 2006 05:50:38 -0700
I plan on expanding a small peer to peer computer network (Windows XP)
of 2 computers (Acer, HP). The computers are connected to a wireless
gateway and are able to talk to each other w/o problems.
To accomodate some applications (eg MySQL ODBC) that require a name /IP
address ; I modified the HOSTS file on both computers as follows:
127.0.0.1 localhost
#Acer:
192.168.1.33 acer.loc www.acer.loc
#HP:
192.168.1.34 hppav.loc www.hppav.loc
I can ping each machine from the other side via name and IP address.
Additionnally, net use seems to work. From Acer I can use 'net use *
\\192.168.1.34\www' to address the shared directory www of the HP
machine.
However, if I attempt to specifv a machine by name (eg. acer.loc) or
address in the MySQL ODBC setup menu, I get an error. The connection
error disappears when I replace 'acer.loc' with 'localhost'.
I presume the DNS configuration options are messed up (automatic
address). I would appreciate getting any hints on how to properly
configure the DNS for a wireless LAN. Many thanks in advance.
Marc
.
- Prev by Date: Re: How to block e-mail in which body of text is .gif
- Next by Date: Re: What causes Windows Sockets to get corrupt?
- Previous by thread: Shared Documents folder issue
- Next by thread: Re: Assigning names to machines local XP network.
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
|
