[NTLUG:Discuss] help - I forgot how to broadcast a server name...

[lee]

try connecting vnc to the ip address instead of the hostname.  also, 
don't forget to add the server number after the address (usually :1 ) 
after the ip address, without any spaces.

if you have an internal network then you have to have either an entry 
for each computer in your network in your hosts file or run an internal 
DNS for your network.

DNS is what translates hostnames to ip addresses and vice-versa.

-- lee

Fred James wrote:

> I have Linux and Win95 boxes on a small home network and I am trying to 
> use a VNC viewer on a Win95 box to see a VNC server on a Linux box ... 
> problem: the view keeps saying: "Failed to get server address. Did you 
> type the host name correctly?"
> 
> There is some kind of a short command (d(something)name?) on Linux I can 
> use to manually publish the host name, but I cannot remember it - 
> please, help.
>