Topic: It takes a long time to connect to the server

[celtic_kiwi]

I have a small home network with e-smith 5.6 as my gateway server. I have named the server jserv and it is on IP 192.168.1.1

When I connect using a Browser, FTP or using Putty (telnet) it takes ages to connect 10-15 seconds. This is on a local lan and it still takes ages either using the Name (JSERV) or the IP address.

Any reason for this.

Gavin

[celtic_kiwi]

Oops, The IP connects immediately but the name will not. How can I set the name on my PC (Hosts File or something)

Gavin

[Sharif George]

search for a hosts. on your windows machine and add a line for your server following the example.

in windows 2000/XP the path is

c:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc

celtic_kiwi wrote:
>
> Oops, The IP connects immediately but the name will not. How
> can I set the name on my PC (Hosts File or something)
>
> Gavin