[X4U] 10.4 names resolving over IP network

[Brett Conlon]

Hi Daly,

Thanks for that! It's working fine.

Did 10.4 introduce the mandatory requirement for ".local" to be added? 
True, in 10.2 and 10.3 it always told us in the Sharing Preference pane 
that "other people can connect to your mac by typing name.local" but 
somehow we've been getting away with just "name".

Cheers,

Coj




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At 4:31 PM +1100 7/18/06, Brett Conlon wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>My designers running 10.3 can type in the name of the Mac they want 
>to connect with and it will resolve the IP's under the hood (as OSX 
>so cleverly does) as long as they are on the same subnet.
>
>Any machine on the same network running 10.4 has lost this ability. 
>They have to type in the full IP address (very boring for graphic 
>designers). Is there something I can do to get this back up and 
>running again?
>
>I'm running OSX Server on 10.3.9 in case that matters... I thought 
>the names resolving under OSX was done on the client level. Perhaps 
>it is done from the Server and I'll need to upgrade.

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You have to put ".local" at the end of the name ...
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Daly