Macintosh and localhost / network addresses
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Macintosh and localhost / network addresses
OK, on my machine as well as my boss who is in the same network (and on Windows XP), all we have to do to get to my machine is type http://lukedt/ but if you type this into my other boss's Mac, it tries to find http://www.lukedt.com which is obviously not what we want. How come it's doing this? Is there something I can do to make it resolve to my machine's localhost like it does on the Windows machines? I'm a network n00b. 
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NetBIOS? Is that the same as what you're saying? Yes, OS X 10.4 does have this by default, you just need to set it up in System Preferences -> Sharingfeyd wrote:Windows is probably using NetBUI to transform the UNC you are supplying to an IP. Last I checked, Macs don't have NetBUI (by default.) Are you running a Samba server?
However, the best thing to do is probably to just edit your /etc/hosts file dude