[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
>>
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