HOSTS file equivalent on mac for name resolution?
!Sylvain Côté
Our network is based on NT 4 technology
we have a few Macs in our organization thought (some irreductible poeple).
When one of my user tries to connect to this server with Netscape 4, he cant
because this server dont have a DNS entry (and I dont want/cant make a DNS
entry for the server only because of some Macs)
The macs cant access the server since the name resolution is done throught
WINS and WINS doesnt work for MAC
I was wondering if there is something similar to the HOSTS file on the MAC?
Thanks for any help
pls e-mail a copy also (remove NOSPAM in reply address)
Sylvain Côté
Agriculture and Agri-Foood Canada
Adam Bailey
>Our network is based on NT 4 technology
>[snip]
I'm sorry.
>I was wondering if there is something similar to the HOSTS file on the
>MAC?
Yes. If you look at the TCP/IP Control Panel, you'll see a button which
allows you to select a hosts file.
>Thanks for any help
>pls e-mail a copy also (remove NOSPAM in reply address)
How rude.
Followups to comp.sys.mac.comm, this isn't a Microsoft issue.
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Richard Birchall
says...
>Our network is based on NT 4 technology
>we have a few Macs in our organization thought (some irreductible poeple).
>When one of my user tries to connect to this server with Netscape 4, he cant
>because this server dont have a DNS entry (and I dont want/cant make a DNS
>entry for the server only because of some Macs)
Isn't it fairly trivial to enable the DNS service on one of your NT boxes, and
populate it from the WINS database?
Richard
J. Moreno
<cote...@SPAMem.agr.ca> wrote:
> Hi!
> Our network is based on NT 4 technology
> we have a few Macs in our organization thought (some irreductible poeple).
> When one of my user tries to connect to this server with Netscape 4, he cant
> because this server dont have a DNS entry (and I dont want/cant make a DNS
> entry for the server only because of some Macs)
> The macs cant access the server since the name resolution is done throught
> WINS and WINS doesnt work for MAC
> I was wondering if there is something similar to the HOSTS file on the MAC?
This question would have been better asked in comp.sys.mac.comm, but...
Do you mean MAC or do you mean Mac? For the first I don't have a clue,
for the second -- Mac's can have a HOSTS file, with pretty much the
same syntax as under unix (which I assume is what is used under
Win95/NT/3.1).
(No, the MAC vs Mac isn't just pointless pendantry, it's actually
relevant as MAC is a connectivy acronym).
> Thanks for any help
> pls e-mail a copy also (remove NOSPAM in reply address)
> Sylvain Côté
> Agriculture and Agri-Foood Canada
I don't send Cc's unless asked real nicely (which means using a correct
address), and preferably made automatic (with the Mail-Copies-To
header).
PS -- undeliverable addresses should end in the top level domain
".invalid". Munge it all you want, but at least put the proper tag on
the end so that it can be rejected when someone tries to send email to
it.
--
John Moreno
David Bourdeau
The right thing to do is install dns, and set it up as a caching only
server. If you DHCP to assign addresses to clients, then add the entry for
the DNS server. If your mac's are setup as dhcp clients they will be updated
with this entry, if you manually enter their info, then add this entry into
their tcpip settings. With that all said, yes there is a hosts file for
mac's, and it's call hosts. It's located in the system folder, just do a
search for it. The file can be edited with the simple text application and
your done.
Thanks,
David Bourdeau, MCP
American President Lines
!Sylvain Côté wrote in message ...
>Hi!
>Our network is based on NT 4 technology
>we have a few Macs in our organization thought (some irreductible poeple).
>When one of my user tries to connect to this server with Netscape 4, he
cant
>because this server dont have a DNS entry (and I dont want/cant make a DNS
>entry for the server only because of some Macs)
>The macs cant access the server since the name resolution is done throught
>WINS and WINS doesnt work for MAC
>I was wondering if there is something similar to the HOSTS file on the MAC?
>
Michael J. Natale
Transport guide which can be found on Apple's web site...its NOT the same as
the PC world...there are a few differences. I beat my head against the wall
for about a week thinking the syntax was the same trying to get our MACs to
see the Exchange Server for Outlook mail...finally found the RIGHT syntax
and bingo, works like a charm.
Michael Natale
justm...@netzero.net
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