IE and Name Resolution

[Highland]

Trying to connect to an Intranet server or a different Network.....I can connect using the IP of the "remote" server and it appears to work OK....

I've set-up a static route and thought I would be user friendly by adding a named entry in our WINS servers, but cant get the connection to establish using the name....??? If I do a "ping" on the name the response shows that name resolution is completing successfully....???

Any ideas....???

thanks.....

 

[Highland]

Anybody seen this before.....????

Any help would be appreciated...!!!

thanks..........

 

[CitrixEngineer]

You say it's resolving via WINS, but how about DNS? Do you get the NetBIOS name when you use ping -a, or a fully qualified name?

Are there similar named entries on the DNS server? In the client's DNS settings?

ICA uses DNS for name resolution.

I hope this helps CitrixEngineer@yahoo.co.uk

 

[Highland]

I've always got this to work fine in the past with only WINS Servers, we haven't any DNS on our local LAN...???

The name resolution thing is a bit weird though...if I do PING SERVERNAME it returns the IP Address of the server as input on the WINS, if I do either a TRACERT or PING -a on the name it returns the name as "something different"..!!!

I'm not entirely sure of the Remote Network set-up, although I now think it's a combination of 2 things....

I think there must be a DNS server "somewhere" which is resolving the name correctly, the problem I think is that there is an UNDERSCORE in this name, IE apparently doesn't recognise underscores within a name...??? I think this is stopping the page displaying...???

I think NT does a combination of searches when resolving names...I understood the search as first try DNS, then WINS, then Netbios, then Local Host Table...???

thanks...........