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STANKAR

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2010-11-16

Posts: 47

x11vnc: cannot use host name in Windows

Hi, i cannot find my host name if i start x11vnc. It works if i write on Windows XP "Real VNC Viewer" IP adress. When i start x11vnc

The VNC desktop is: asus:0

But if i write to Real VNC Viewer "asus" or "asus:5900", it doesn't work but if i write "192.168.1.101" it works fine. I need find how i can use host name, because i have DHCP on router and IP address will be different. Please help, thanks

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: x11vnc: cannot use host name in Windows

Well, that's to be expected with standard plastic routers, or can you ping your XP box by name, for example?

Look in your router interface if you can specify DHCP leases with fixed IPs, depending on MAC address.
And then specify hostnames for those IPs in /etc/hosts and c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

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