[K12OSN] Creating a link on the desktop
Petre Scheie
petre at maltzen.net
Fri May 5 14:58:56 UTC 2006
Although you would think specifying the address would work. Nevertheless, try putting a
hostname for the address in /etc/hosts and then use that hostname in the link. You may
need to use the fully qualified name of the host.
Petre
Burke Almquist wrote:
> Sounds like a DNS/hosts issue??
>
> On May 4, 2006, at 6:57 PM, Steve Knopik wrote:
>
>> I am building a new server with K12LTSP 4.2.3EL. I am trying to create
>> a link on the desktop to connect to our web based accounting software.
>> When I create the link to "http://192.168.1.165/nolapro/" Firefox
>> opens "http://localhost/nolapro". Our webserver is on another server,
>> so localhost will not work.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas why the link is trying to open localhost on the
>> new server instead of going to the IP address that has been put into
>> the saved link.
>>
>> This only happens to this link only. I have another link on the
>> desktop to our web based calendar and it works fine.
>>
>> Steve Knopik
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> K12OSN mailing list
>> K12OSN at redhat.com
>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn
>> For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>
>
> _______________________________________________
> K12OSN mailing list
> K12OSN at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn
> For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>
>
More information about the K12OSN
mailing list