Dan Gordon wrote: > On Tuesday 17 August 2004 01:57 pm, Björn Lundin wrote: >> >> localhost is the computer you are typing to. >> if you don't have DNS on the network nor an entry in /etc/hosts for >> the computer you wan't to reach, try the ip-address ie >> http://192.168.0.4 if that is the ip of the computer having the >> web-server >> > > So to add it to the hosts file i would add the netbios name for example > computera 127.0.0.1 > and the same for all computers on the network?
I take it, the ip-addressing worked? if so then yes ,but the other way around, like this (ip first then name) [EMAIL PROTECTED] bnl]$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost della 192.168.0.13 della2 192.168.0.10 debora 192.168.0.12 doris /Björn
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