How to recognize intranet host server name

[TaTaskan]

Hi,

I am using Ubuntu on a Windows network.

One of the computers have apache server (working), it has 192.168.1.6 IP, and the name of the computer on the network is "servidor"

I can't access from ubuntu, if I type http://servidor or 192.168.1.6, it goes to www.servidor.com, but I can access shared folders, just the host intranet server I can't

I have vmware with windows xp, and I can access http://servidor from there, but not from Firefox in Ubuntu.

I tried to search on google without success, how can I solve my problem, or where to look?

Thanks

[joberly]

The easy way is to simply edit your /etc/hosts file with a line like this:

192.168.1.6 servidor

But let me ask to clarify, this may change things, you CANNOT access the website by using the internal IP ?

[ant2ne]

Windows boxes often use broadcasts to determine hostnames in a workgroup network. linux does not. You need to edit the /etc/hosts files or put up a functional dns server that can point servidor.local to the correct IP (not servidor.com as that is already out on the internet)

[TaTaskan]

Thank you!

I did what you told me an now it works

joberly: I cound't access with 192.168.1.6 neither with http://servidor, now I can with both

thanks again

[joberly]

Awesome!