In my home’s intranet, I need to connect to my linux server from my XP laptop. To directly use the linux computer’s name instead of the IP adress, I need to make sure that XP can correctly map the host name to the IP address. I have tried two options. The first is to modify the hosts file in windows, and the second is to directly modify the IP-hostname pair in the router’s DNS setup. And I prefer the second method.<\/p>\n
The first method:
\nuse Notepad to open the file “c:windows\\system32\\drivers\\hosts”, or “c:windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts”
\nat NT, it’s c:winnt\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts, and add the following line<\/p>\n
192.168.1.4 beast<\/p>\n
which mapped the IP address 192.168.1.4 to my linux machine “beast”. The following link is very useful to me, http:\/\/practice.chatserve.com\/hosts.html<\/p>\n
In order to set up the hostname on the linux box, I made a change on the \/etc\/hosts file, which looks like this:
\n127.0.0.1 beast.localdomain localhost beast
\n192.168.1.4 beast.localdomain localhost beast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In my home’s intranet, I need to connect to my linux server from my XP laptop. To directly use the linux computer’s name instead of the IP adress, I need to make sure that XP can correctly map the host name to the IP address. I have tried two options. The first is to modify … <\/p>\n