SUS

[Adam Hicks]

I'm trying to setup this Software Update Services thing
that MS has. I downloaded the program and installed it,
but now when I go to try and go to the address
http://localhost/SUSAdmin (where localhost is our servers
name) and it will not let me go there. it says it can
find the site. Does anyone know anything about this?? if
so could you please help out.

Adam

 

[Ray at]

Localhost is not the name of your server. (At least I hope you didn't
really name it that...) Localhost is an entry in your hosts file that
resolves to the loopback IP address of the machine, 127.0.0.1. Each
computer is its own localhost. So, that is to say that if I go to
http://localhost on SERVER1, I will see what site, if any, SERVER1 is
hosting. If I then log on to SERVER2 and go to http://localhost, I will see
the site that SERVER2 is hosting. If I then get on my XP workstation and go
to http://localhost, it will attempt to pull up a Web site from MY XP
computer. So, unless you installed IIS and SUS on every machine in your
company, you do not want to go to localhost. You want to go to
http://nameofserver or setup another name for it in DNS or WINS. LOCAL host
is just that, the local machine that you are on.

Ray at work

 

[Adam Hicks]

No I didn't name it local host it is actually conewago-5
so I tried that and it still isn't coming up. when I type
it in.

 

[Adam Hicks]

No I didn't call the server Localhost I just wrote that
so I didn't tell everyone in the world our servers name.
I used the name of ther server and it didn't work I'm not
sure why?

-----Original Message-----
Localhost is not the name of your server. (At least I hope you didn't
really name it that...) Localhost is an entry in your hosts file that
resolves to the loopback IP address of the machine, 127.0.0.1. Each
computer is its own localhost. So, that is to say that if I go to
http://localhost on SERVER1, I will see what site, if any, SERVER1 is
hosting. If I then log on to SERVER2 and go to

http://localhost, I will see

 

[Ray at]

Then I recommend microsoft.public.softwareupdatesvcs.

Ray at work