Probably very basic DNS

[peterattheboro]

As a trainee IT Technician, I have an issue that's bugging me.

We have multiple servers in the office all named up for example 192.168.0.4 = Windows2kserver1.

Now on the clients when you want to open the mapped drive you would go to start > Run and type in '\\Windows2kserver1' and that would then open the folder.

But on my laptop (Vista) I can't do this even tho I can see 'Windows2kserver1' and every other PC on the network. I can click on the PCs and I can access files on that server and/or client. On the laptop I have to put in '\\192.168.0.4'

How do I go about allowing me to use the first method and the method I use for all the client PCs.

I've also tried running the login script that we have for the clients on this laptop but I'm getting the error "The network connection could not be found"

Hopefully that made some sense!!

 

[garyh]

Not an ideal situation, but you could manually add the DNS route to the HOSTS file within Vista.

Go to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\

Open the HOSTS file with something like notepad then add the following route under 127.0.0.1 localhost:

192.168.0.4 Windows2kserver1

I'm presuming you've probably just not added the DNS manually to your Local Area Network Connection which is why it's not working; I could be wrong though.. you need to give more info on the network config.

 

[peterattheboro]

That's worked a treat!

Thankyou.