Topic: I am not able to access sme server.

[MrYogi]

I created a thread a while ago about the problem and followed the suggestions given in the thread. But it did not work. I am posting a new thread here as the servernames and other info are different this time.

I am able to access the sme server by typing http://192.168.1.100/ from any machine on the lan.
But I cannot access the server by typing
http://moon/
http://moon/server-manager/
http://www.mercury.lan/server-manager/
http://jupiter/server-manager/
http://jupiter/
etc.,

Please review my server configuration and let me know what the problem is.

Review configuration

Networking Parameters
Server Mode serveronly
Local IP address / subnet mask 192.168.1.100/255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.1.1
Additional local networks 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
DHCP server disabled
Server names
DNS server 192.168.1.100
Web server www.moon.lan
Proxy server proxy.moon.lan:3128
FTP server ftp.moon.lan
SMTP, POP, and IMAP mail servers mail.moon.lan
Domain information
Primary domain moon.lan
Virtual domains moon.lan
Primary web site http://www.moon.lan
Server manager http://sun/server-manager/
User password panel http://sun/user-password/
Email Addresses useraccount@moon.lan
firstname.lastname@moon.lan
firstname_lastname@moon.lan

[MrYogi]

Again, I can access the server-manager using the ip address but not the name.

Should I change anything under hostnames and addresses? Everything in there is set to Self. I changed it to local and gave it the ip address but it didnt work.

[MSmith]

... someone else's suggestion, but do you have the "Workgroup" and "Server Name" set correctly in the Workgroup section of Server Manager?

[bobk]

It would be a lot of help if you posted your Network configuration. Questions that immediately come to mind from looking at your 'moon' machine configuation are:

1. What is located at 191.168.1.1? Is this a hardware router or another SME machine in 'server-gateway' mode?

2. Where is the LAN's DHCP server located?
 
3. Where does the LAN receive DNS information from? The posted config information  says 191.168.1.100 but if you have another machine providing DNS then there will be conflicts.

4. Why is 'server-manager' and 'user-password' located on the "sun" machine?

[jack_b]

Get yourself into the server manager by which ever way you can.

On the left hand side under CONFIGURATION is WORKGROUP.

Look for your server name. Mine for example is called server1. All you need to type in future to get into your server manager is to type

http://server1/server-manager or whatever your server name is called.

Hope this helps.

JB

[gbaird]

Hello

you need to have your host names setup correctly

with a linux box edit the /etc/hosts file

192.168.1.12    server.domain.com      server
192.168.1.22    server2.domain.com     server2

in windows you can make a hosts file for the same use
and put it in the windows directory

you cannot find the computer if you don't know where it lives
this is not a samba/workgroup problem it is host/dns setup

linux searches hosts file first then if not found checks the named file which is dns

Greg