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Hi.

I installed an ubuntu server using a windows 7 host. I set it to use bridged network.
I installed several applications that have a web interface. From the host I can access the different web interfaces using something like: hxxp://server_name:8080

But from other computers though I cannot access it using the server name; Only by IP like hxxp://192.168.1.13:8080/


If I go to the list of network drives in windows and try to access the ubuntu server it lists the server with its name. When I click it it says it cannot access the drive though (on all non-host computers in the network). Using \\192.168.1.13 gives me access though.


Any ideas?
Thank you.

Sure you don't have DNS so add an entry to the hosts "host" file.

Thank you for the reply.

Did you mean adding something like this to the host file of the host?:
192.168.1.13 server_name

I tried that and it didn't help.
If I add it to the computer that I want to connect with it works though. But this doesn't seem like a nice solution. The guest could change IP (yes I know it would be more proper to fix it in the router) so I was wondering if there was a more proper solution? Seems like using the host file is a hack. Or am I wrong?

Thanks.

Adding it to the host will only help for the host to be able to use the friendly name. If you want to access it from a different PC then you would need the entry there as well.