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Macintosh and localhost / network addresses
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:40 pm
by Luke
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.

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:43 pm
by feyd
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?
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:48 pm
by Luke
nope
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:47 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Does it doe it in all browsers?
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:04 pm
by Chris Corbyn
feyd 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?
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 -> Sharing
However, the best thing to do is probably to just edit your /etc/hosts file dude

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:15 pm
by Luke
d11wtq wrote:However, the best thing to do is probably to just edit your /etc/hosts file dude

alright, I'll take a look at that. Thanks.
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:21 pm
by feyd