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the_joeba
2006-02-21, 18:12
i am requesting that instead of the ip (streaming server for) that the ability to just have the name of the computer on the network.

spiff
2006-02-21, 18:31
add it to your nameserver then.

Kaspers
2006-02-21, 19:49
i am requesting that instead of the ip (streaming server for) that the ability to just have the name of the computer on the network.
that's already working ;)

you need a nat router, which add's computer names's to their ip's.

Nuka1195
2006-02-21, 22:17
are you saying that daap://computername/ entry in my music should work?

Kaspers
2006-02-21, 22:21
i don't use daap, but when i use smb://computername/ it works fine :).

spiff
2006-02-21, 22:45
when you do

smb://computername

the wins server translates computername to the ip address.

if you want it to work for daap you need the dns server to translate the ip address.

two different beasts, although both nameservers...