Re: Assigning names to machines local XP network.

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On 1 May 2006 00:13:30 -0700, msch-prv@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Chuck,

Thanks for your feedback. I included listings of 'ipconfig /all' for
both machines. (The listings are in French. Hopefully you can make some
sense out of it; unfortunately, PC's in Switzerland are not shipped
with an English OS.)

Notes:
By comparing the ouput with the sample of your article, I noticed that
the node types are different: In my case, it appears either as 'unknown
(inconnu)' on the Acer and as 'hybride'(hybrid) on the HPPav. Also, the
DNS Suffix Search List has two different names (giuacer.loc and
giuhppav.loc) contrary to your example (pchuck.net)

Problem/Objective:
The goal is to allow network clients to share a central MySQL db.
(Currently, each client has a copy of the db and can access it locally
w/o problems.) To enable central db accessing, MySQL's MyODBC connector
must be configured by specifying a host name. The MyOBDC connector
works fine when I enter the local name ot the machine (ie for Acer:
localhost, giuacer.loc, or 192.168.1.33). However, it fails when I type
in the name/IP address of the other server (ie 'giuhppav.loc'. etc. on
the acer PC). So, my guess is that clients do not recognize the name of
the PC's connected on the network. (peer-to-peer networking).

Mark,

Node Types "Hybrid" and "Unknown" are perfectly acceptable for broadcast
resolution.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/address-resolution-on-lan.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/address-resolution-on-lan.html

But Node Type defines name resolution used for Windows Networking, ie file /
printer sharing. Maybe MySQL only uses DNS / Hosts, making your earlier
attempts valid after all.

Did you try "Acer2350.giuacer.loc" or "HP-Pavilion3310.giuhppav.loc"? The
"giuacer.loc" is a DNS suffix. Generally, the DNS suffix is common across all
computers in the domain, not unique to each one. In my example, "pchuck.net"
would probably be better off as "pchuck.local" or "pchuck.loc" since
"pchuck.net" is not yet a registered domain. But it's "pchuck.net", not
"pchuck1.net", making my computer "pchuck1.pchuck.net".

What make and model router do you have? Does it provide a true DNS server, or
does it simply relay DNS requests to an external (public) server? If the
latter, name resolutions using "Acer2350.giuacer.loc" shouldn't be expected to
work. DNS based name resolution requires a DNS server or Hosts file entry, and
the DNS server has to be local to your domain, not public.

Maybe this question would be better off researched in a mysql forum, say
"comp.databases.mysql"?
<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.mysql>
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.mysql

--
Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck mvps org.
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