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kenwarner
Asked: 2009-09-27 09:17:24 +0800 CST

Remote Desktop to virtual machine by machine name instead of IP address

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I have a couple virtual machines running in VMWare Server. I can RDP to them using their intranet IP address, but not by their machine name. Why is this? Is there a setting that will allow this? my host OS is Win7 and my VM is Win2k3 and they are both set up to get a static IP through DHCP

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  1. Best Answer

    You don't say what your host or guest operating systems are, but one method would be to edit your /etc/hosts files to include the name(s) of the systems involved.

    If you're using Windows, it should be in C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

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  2. Adding an entry in the hosts file as mentioned above would be the easiest way. Adding something like this would do the job, where the x's are replaced with the IP address:

    # localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
#   127.0.0.1       localhost
#   ::1             localhost

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx      BUILD
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