yes, I have AD and DNS running. Would you please give a detailled direction
how I do this.

"Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" wrote:

> Lino767 wrote:
> > I have an application running on my print server and I like use that
> > as a web server too. I have this desk application installed on
> > this server, what i would like to have is a name like (http://IT)
> > pointing to the desk app, how do I do that? IIS is installed on
> > the server...FYI:when I use the server name on the browser I get to
> > the desk app.
>
> Do you have a DNS server running?
> Are you running Active Directory, which would require DNS?
> If you have Active Directory running it would be a simple matter of adding a
> new host in the zone for the AD domain named it, with the IP of the web
> server. Since the AD Domain name should be already in your DNS suffix search
> list, it would be resolved in the DNS Suffix search.
> If you don't have AD you will need some way to resolve it to the IP of
> the web server. This can be easily done with DNS only if it has a DNS name.
> But since a DNS client will not send a single-labeled name to DNS, it will
> use either NetBIOS broadcast or WINS to resolve the name. In order to get a
> client to send a single-label name to DNS you will have to add a trailing
> dot "." which tells the DNS client it is a fully qualified DNS name and it
> will send it to the DNS server, where you could use a zone named it
> where you would create a host leaving the name field blank with the IP of
> the web server.
>
> There are a lot of ifs here, but that's all you gave us to work with are
> iffys. :-)
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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