Mixed network

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Edward Bender

I have a home network consisting of windows xp pro machines and mac os
10.4 machines. Each machine has a fixed ip address with the same
subnet mask. When I try to access a web page using a browser on the
windows machine and the page hosted on a mac machine, I can use either
the mac's computer name of the ip address. When I try to access a page
hosted on the windows machine using the mac as the client (browser on
the mac), I must use the ip address and the windows computer name will
not get me to the windows web server (IIS 5). What am I missing?
Thanks,
Ed Bender
 
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Rafael T

Your mac does not have a way to resolve the name to an ip address.

I'm not a mac guy, but you ca probably find something on the internet by
searching for things like
DNS
lmhost

hope this help
RT
 

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