PuTTY and hostname

[NeoGreen]

Hello all, I have a question.. I recently installed and configured and Ubuntu Server to run LAMP. I want to be able to log on to the server using PuTTY. However...I have to type the IP address to access it instead of the host name...is there a way to configure it so I can access it jut by typing the name of the server? Any advice will be appreciated.

Thanks

[lykwydchykyn]

You need some way for your client to resolve the name to an IP. If you have your own DNS server, you can put a record in there. Otherwise, you can make an entry in the hosts file of the client to point it to the machine:

192.168.blah.blah    my_servers_name

Hosts file on Windows is c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

[NeoGreen]

Great it worked. Thanks for the advice.