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Sara June
Asked: 2021-08-12 23:42:04 +0800 CST

How to give alternate name to localhost for sharing on windows?

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I have a jenkins production job which involves multiple nodes/slaves and when we run the job it utilizes them based on the slave mentioned. And also, it has access to some machines shared folders.So from master, it is trying to access shared folders like \machine1\c$\sharefolder1 \machine2\c$\sharefolder2

So for my test environment, I installed jenkins and want to keep everything in a single slave. But,I don't want to modify the jobs.

So, I added entries in my local machine where jenkins is running and added entries to hosts file for machine1 and machine2. \localhost\c$ is opening but not with \machine1\c$ or \machine2\c$ even after adding entries to hosts file.

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
    127.0.0.1       localhost      machine1     machine2

ping is redirecting to 127.0.0.1 loopback address only. But with localhost or 127.0.0.1 it is not prompting for password.But for machine1 or machine2 it is prompting for credentials and typing the machine's credentials is not working.

file-sharing hosts

1 Answers

  1. Add these hosts, machine1 machine2 and such, to DNS.

    Perhaps the test environment has its own zone, test.example.net. Then configure DNS Suffix Search List on test hosts to include that. Resulting in machine1 resolving machine1.test.example.net

    Ideally configure a routable IP address for the DNS, not loopback. Gets mildly confusing if anyone forgets that loopback is this host. However nothing technically prevents an AAAA record having the value ::1.

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