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(New page: Some times, vista refuses to acknowledge short URLs. Here's a fix that worked for me (Vista specific) In Control Panel/network connections 1. Right click your ethernet card (or simila...)
 
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In Control Panel/network connections
 
In Control Panel/network connections
1. Right click your ethernet card (or similar) and select properties
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1 Right click your ethernet card (or similar) and select properties
1. Select Internet Protocol vrs4 and press the properties button
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1 Select Internet Protocol vrs4 and press the properties button
1. Click the "Advanced" button
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1 Click the "Advanced" button
1. Select the DNS tab
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1 Select the DNS tab
1. press the "Append these DNS suffixes (in order)" button
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1 Press the "Append these DNS suffixes (in order)" button
1. add your home server's domain name (eg. home.com)
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1 Add your home server's domain name (eg. home.com)
1. press the required OKs, apply, close ...
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1 Press the required OKs, apply, close ...
  
  
 
All should work correctly now ... This should work automatically - hopefully
 
All should work correctly now ... This should work automatically - hopefully
 
someone can explain why Vista messes this up!
 
someone can explain why Vista messes this up!

Revision as of 01:23, 3 February 2009

Some times, vista refuses to acknowledge short URLs.

Here's a fix that worked for me (Vista specific)

In Control Panel/network connections 1 Right click your ethernet card (or similar) and select properties 1 Select Internet Protocol vrs4 and press the properties button 1 Click the "Advanced" button 1 Select the DNS tab 1 Press the "Append these DNS suffixes (in order)" button 1 Add your home server's domain name (eg. home.com) 1 Press the required OKs, apply, close ...


All should work correctly now ... This should work automatically - hopefully someone can explain why Vista messes this up!