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XP machine cannot see server even after host is added to hosts file
I have added a machine to my network. One of my Windows machines (Vista Business) can ping it and see it, however, my XP machine cannot see the machine.
I have changed the ...
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How to get a consistent computer identifier for UNIX-like systems?
How to get a consistent computer identifier for UNIX-like systems that's independent of how the computer connect to Internet?
In a Bash script, I use hostname -s to get my computer's name and use it ...
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Difference between NETBIOS, host name and computer name?
In windows if you go to Computer->Properties->Advanced System Settings->Computer Name, you can change the computer name, let's say from "MYCOMPUTER" to "LEDZEPPELIN".
This changes the (1) computer ...
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How to resolve NetBios names on Mac OS X?
I know there's smbutil lookup command, but I would like to know how to get it in the system lookup, similar to what is possible on Linux by modifying /etc/nsswitch.conf
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How do I get my Linux servers accessible via http://hostname/
I have two Linux servers on VirtualBox Virtual machines. One is Ubuntu Linux and another is OpenSuse Linux.
The hostname of Ubuntu server is "ubuntu-server" and hostname of open suse server is ...
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Linux change environmental variables without rebooting for all shells
I am using Fedora 14 and I changed my hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network and by using the hostname command. The shell prompts correctly display the new hostname. However the terminal titles still ...
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Why can Putty SSH by hostname but Mac OS X cannot?
When I installed Putty on my Windows laptop I could SSH to my Linux server by using that computer's host name. On my Mac, I had to use the IP address. Any idea how Windows did name resolution when ...
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How to resolve OSX computer name to ip address for local web service?
I have a script on my XP machine that needs to contact my OSX machine by ip address. The OSX machine uses DHCP, and the ip address changes daily. However, it has a static computer name and netbios ...
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How to stop Windows from overriding a DHCP assigned hostname?
At my university the DHCP server assigns each computer a unique hostname. On a unix box, you can type hostname and see this unique hostname (it is essentially your IP address). On a windows box ...
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Strange NS behavior on OS X — can't connect to SSH server
I'm trying to SSH to an Eee PC laptop running Debian on a network where hostnames are automatically registered with DNS via the DHCP server. The Eee PC laptop had run out of power and gone to sleep ...
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Configure Ubuntu hostnames
I'm trying to configure a Ubuntu 10.4 server and have a little confusion with configuring with hostnames.
My domain is example.com and the hostname would be one. If I'm correct, when I've configured ...
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How to point a domain name from Name.com to my home web server?
I have a fully working home web server on Fedora 15, here it is:
http://24.109.247.176/
I want to have my domain which is on Name.com to be used for my home web server, how can I accomplish this?
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Hostname issue in Mac OS X Lion
I've recently bought myself one of the new mid-2011 Mac Minis with OS X Lion, I'm completely new to Mac OS but I've used linux quite a bit before. The problem I'm having is that at the terminal my ...
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Adding and removing machine from domain, whats happening?
I am curious if anybody could breakdown the story of what happens if you were to deploy an image to a machine by some method, add it to domain, and then format the drive and deploy an image again, and ...
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How To Resolve IP Addresses To Domain Names?
I know it is possible to resolve IP addresses to host names but can IPs be resolved to domain names?
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Why is my wireless router screwing up hostname lookups?
The problem: I have two computers on my wireless network (domain name "serenity", at 192.168.1.1), hostnames "jayne" (Arch Linux, at 192.168.1.108), and "mal" (Mac OS X, at 192.168.1.101). When I try ...
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Windows XP: how to change computer name without reboot?
Under Windows XP, is it possible to change the computer name without rebooting? If so, how?
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Cannot Access Website First Time Through Router And Later It Seems To Forget Routing Table [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Cannot Resolve Host Or Access Website Through Router
Would be helpful to those who are willing to help with this one. I evaluated the problem and it is for computer ...
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Automated Windows host -> IP resolution over subnet on Mac
I have a few Windows computers and two Mac computers all on the same router. The Windows computers can find each other by hostname just fine, so for example a UNC path of \\HOSTNAME\SHARE would ...
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Cannot Resolve Host Or Access Website Through Router
This is weird. I am on Windows XP with Edimax BR 6204Wg. I have 3 devices - 2 laptops and 1 smartphone. 1st laptop and smartphone are connected through WiFi to router and 2nd laptop is connected ...
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Simulating an UNC path with a leading dot
Being a C# .NET Windows Forms developer, some customers are running our applications on an Apple OS X Mac inside a Parallels virtual machine.
Parallels presents host folders to the guest Windows as ...
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What is a hostname?
I'm setting up a Fedora 15 box in my local network. It's going to have Internet access and share media stuff like photos.
In one step of the installation process it asks for "hostname", what could ...
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DNS unknown host resolved to some pblic ip
In my windows machine all unknown host name resolved to some public open dns ip address when i try to ping any unknown host name as below but for the name host name other windows machine in the same ...
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Tweak hosts file to avoid issues with duplicate machines in a workgroup
I am a software trainer.
Training facilities clone a master image onto multiple machines for the students.
Previously, we used to name these student machines S1, S2, S3, etc.
The downfall to this, ...
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Enable Port Forwarding on UTStarcom UT300R2T
This question is a reference to VPN help for Android
I want to visit this page on my server
http://192.168.2.53:8080/tma/majBtm/androidToDesktop
Since it's a dynamic IP, the above mentioned IP ...
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Custom hostnames?
Say I owned a domain name i.e. abc.com, and I have the dns for this domain pointed to my static ip:
What steps would I need to take in order for a webserver to see that my hostname was ...
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LAN hostname resolution
I have several computers running on my home LAN, and all are connected to one router. I'm running linux on some of the machines and Windows on the others. Without any configuration, I can ping a ...
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Unable to resolve hostname on a proxy network
I can browse sites using firefox configured with proxy
172.1.6.0.6:3128
resolv.conf
domain pudhcp.ac.in
search pudhcp.ac.in
nameserver 172.16.0.7
I checked with Windows and I found the ...
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Need to setup a wireless network with hostname resolving and samba shares?
I'm new to networking in depth, I may ask silly questions. I hope you can point me in some right direction.
Info
I have a Belkin N 150 wireless ADSL router that also acts as a wireless hub. I have ...
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How do I find out my computer network name (Linux)?
I have a linux machine on my university network where I usually log in via ssh from home. I have know the ip, so this is what I use to log in, but it would convenient to know if my computer have a ...
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Purpose of LAN Domain?
What is the purpose of creating a domain name for your LAN? I'm using DD-WRT on my router and assigned local.moofz.com as the LAN domain. I setup Apache HTTP servers on two of the computers on my LAN ...
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Cannot ssh to laptop with OSX hostname.local, but can connect through ip
I am trying to connect from my server to my macbook thru ssh but I cannot find its hostname on the network. I enabled Remote Login in System Preferences > Sharing and my mac claims that:
Computers ...
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OpenOffice.org 3 waits 25 seconds before opening
I'm on Fedora 14, and OpenOffice 3.3.0 takes a long time to open (about 30 seconds, sometimes less). It isn't a CPU or disk performance issue, it's just simply a very long delay before the program ...
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How to make ping more persistent with unresolved hostnames
When I try to ping a hostname of a computer that is down, I get en error that it cannot resolve the hostname.
$ alice:~ me$ ping bob
ping: cannot resolve bob: Unknown host
Is there a way I can make ...
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Get Hostname from IP address/MAC address
I have a list of IP addresses and MAC addresses connected to my local network, but I need to get the hostnames of each device, is there a command line or terminal (mac) command for this?
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How can I display host name on windows desktop
I do a lot of work on Windows Server 2008 remote desktops and often lose track of which host I am currently logged on to.
Is there a way of displaying (without installing any non-standard apps) the ...
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From which hosts have I sshed
If I'm in a terminal and I ssh into a new host, then ssh to another host, then another etc., is there a way to determine this chain of hosts other than recursively exiting and seeing where I end up?
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What is the SIMPLEST way to setup two-way hostname resolution between Windows 7 Host and Ubuntu Linux VMWare Guest?
Starting from a clean Windows 7, I installed VMWare Player and then inside it I installed Ubuntu.
Both OS's can ping each other by IP address, but hostnames won't resolve. What's the easiest way to ...
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hostnames on the local domain help
I just changed to a router from the BT business one that had a gateway of gateway.2wire.net.
With the new router, I now cannot access the linux machines on the network using the "hostname" syntax but ...
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How to set the static IP address and change the Host Name of a FreeBSD machine?
I have a FreeBSD machine running as a Virtual Machine. There are 2 things that I need to do.
Change the IP Address and Host name
Put this machine into the Network. My machine is already connected to ...
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Assign hostname to IP without editing hosts file
I need to addhosts temporarily and multiple times to Windows and would like to be able to do so without having to constantly edit the system32\drivers\etc\hosts file, since the changes only need to ...
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Entry in /etc/hosts responds to ping but not in browser
A little background:
I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.4
I have a site set up on my external web server
The site on my server is set up with DNS records ready to respond to "mydomain.dev"
There is no public ...
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Unable to access one computer (Win7) from another (Mac OSX) over a home network
I am not able to even ping the local ip address of each of those computers. How can I go about fixing that issue? I am basically trying to host few servers from one of the boxes (Win 7) and be able to ...
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Linux-Windows 7 Network: Can't ping Linux Box using hostname?
First off I should say that I am a total Linux and Networking Noob. I have used Windows all my life, but I am now trying to get into linux so I have set up an old PC with Fedora.
Currently I only ...
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Hostname does not have a FQDN?? - Linux/Ubuntu
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
By typing the command:
hostname --fqdn
I get the following
hostname: Name or service not known
As requested by Raphaël Hertzog
# /etc/nsswitch.conf
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# Example ...
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How to disable Microsoft hostname lookup “enhancements”?
Recently, I found if I enter a single word query "blah" into a browser (Firefox or Safari) on my home Windows machine (not connected to domain) then search is redirected to Bing, instead of my default ...
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How to define IP and hostname of another PC in Windows XP?
in Mac or Linux, we can simply define IP and hostname in /etc/hosts. Then we can call another local computer with hostname (not with IP) we defined. But in windows, How can I do that? Where can I edit ...
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Change windows hostname from command line
This question is related to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/54989/change-windows-hostname-from-command-line, but I'm in a different situation. The netdom tool will not work on a computer not joined ...
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How to set the hostname according to the DNS name on Ubuntu 9.10?
Motivation
I have to manage a lot of virtual machines that I create by copying a template (VmWare image).
Problem
Now I have the problem that in the template the file /etc/hostname contains a given ...
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Setting correct hostname
cat /etc/hostname
the console show me my ip adress, when i type cat /etc/mailname
it shows me my-ip-adress.internetserviceteam.com
I have no idea if it's a problem or not, but i was lokking through ...
