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by master91011

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Hi,
I am trying to host website on my private network(intranet). I have successfully installed and configured IIS. I have managed to create a website, and also I can excess it from another computer's browser on the same network by keying in IP address of server, where my web page is stored. But if I try to access the website by typing a computer name, for some reason I can not access the website. I have tried adding host header name as my computer name, but it didn't work. I messed around withDNS and that didn't work as well. I think I need to work on the DNS side to resolve the naming issue. I don't know how. I have forward and reverse lookup zone under my DNS server and it says active directory running. Do I need to create another entry in forward lookup zone to access the website by computer name? If so, how? Can somebody please explain me step by step how can I resolve this problem. Please HELP!! Thanks in advance.

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by rdunn

If you are on an internal network, your best bet would be to use WINS. If you enable WINS on your server, you should be able to resolve Netbios names to TCP/IP and vice-versa.

In the meantime, you could insert the server's hostname and IP address in the hosts file (if win2k, c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc - win9x is c:\windows\hosts)

Good luck!

Rob

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