OT: windoze equivalent of /etc/hosts

2006-01-20 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, I've set up a little internal web server on our home network. On my debian boxes I just added a line like: 192.168.2.111 ourhome to /etc/hosts to facilitate browsing. But my wife has a windows xp laptop I have no idea how to do the same thing there (I've pretty well never used

Re: OT: windoze equivalent of /etc/hosts

2006-01-20 Thread Marty
Matt Price wrote: hi folks, I've set up a little internal web server on our home network. On my debian boxes I just added a line like: 192.168.2.111 ourhome to /etc/hosts to facilitate browsing. But my wife has a windows xp laptop I have no idea how to do the same thing there (I've

Re: OT: windoze equivalent of /etc/hosts

2006-01-20 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 1/20/06, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi folks,I've set up a little internal web server on our home network.On mydebian boxes I just added a line like: 192.168.2.111 ourhometo /etc/hosts to facilitate browsing.But my wife has a windows xplaptop I have no idea how to do the same thing

Re: OT: windoze equivalent of /etc/hosts

2006-01-20 Thread Matt Price
On 1/20/06, Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: hi folks, I've set up a little internal web server on our home network. On my debian boxes I just added a line like: 192.168.2.111 ourhome to /etc/hosts to facilitate browsing. But my wife has a windows xp laptop

Re: OT: windoze equivalent of /etc/hosts

2006-01-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:50:19 -0500 Aaron Stromas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/20/06, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi folks, I've set up a little internal web server on our home network. On my debian boxes I just added a line like: 192.168.2.111 ourhome to /etc/hosts

Re: OT: windoze equivalent of /etc/hosts

2006-01-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 01:43 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:50:19 -0500 Aaron Stromas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/20/06, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] But I'm almost sure you'll have to reboot for the changes to take effect :( We can dream. Sadly, it's