Hi Michael, Thanks for letting us know. It sounds like DNS lookup was taking priority over hosts file lookup, and the DNS server was reporting "definitely not a resolvable name", so that Windows wouldn't then bother falling back to hosts. I can't say I've ever seen such behaviour myself, though!
Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd > By the way, it works for the personal addition as well since > i have disabled the DNS client. > > > On 5/10/07, Michael Murphy < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Well I finally got it working. I thank you for all > your help with everything and I am sorry for taking up your > time. I disabled DNS client and now everything is working > smooth as a top. > > Thanks again for all your help. > > > On 5/10/07, James Weatherall < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi Michael, > > If resolving the names you've specified in the > hosts file works for other > applications on the same computer then it'll > work for VNC Viewer - VNC > Viewer just uses the normal name-lookup APIs to > get the host address. > > The only possibility I can think of is that > your computer has a trashed > network stack, in which case completely > removing & reinstalling all > networking components would fix it, but that's > a long shot. > > Cheers, > > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
