Using computer name/DNS rather than IP address

mosfet · 25 Jun 2008 at 18:22

My workplace already has 3 windows/linux servers up and running which can be connected to within our LAN (for telnet, http admin and ftp) simply using their computer names.

I've just added an old Power Mac G4 running as a basic fileserver but so far can only connect to it using its IP address. The server.local name established in system preferences doesn't work on any other machines on the local network.

Is there a way to do what I'm looking for on Mac OS X?

mosfet · 25 Jun 2008 at 18:45

How do I go about doing that? My router/dhcp server doesn't have any options regarding DNS, is it a local machine setting?

Thanks!

mosfet · 3 Jul 2008 at 01:20

I've done it the hosts file way, which works great since only one machine really needs it. We don't have a dedicated DNS server (a software router/firewall/DNS server is on the cards next), just a rack-mount router.

Thanks!

mosfet · 3 Jul 2008 at 16:49

LordSplodge said:
You don't have DNS? Any reason why not? You have some Linux servers so setting up DNS wouldn't be too difficult and would make life a little easier...

It certainly would, but they're Aspera delivery machines in constant use, I don't have root details nor do I really want to start mucking around with them.