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Some times, Vista and Windows 7 don't operate well with short URLs.
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Sometimes, Vista and Windows 7 don't resolve the host-only Amahi uses. Here's a possible fix that worked for me  on Vista/Windows 7
  
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Here's a fix that worked for me (Vista/Windows 7 specific)
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For Windows Vista  
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# From the menu, select ''Control Panel'' then ''Network Connections''
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In Control Panel/network connections
 
 
# Right click your ethernet card (or similar) and select properties
 
# Right click your ethernet card (or similar) and select properties
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# Select ''Internet Protocol v4'' and press the properties button
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# Select ''Internet Protocol Version 4'' and press the properties button
 
# Click the "Advanced" button
 
# Click the "Advanced" button
 
# Select the DNS tab
 
# Select the DNS tab
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All should work correctly now ... This should work now
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For Windows 7
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# In Control Panel select ''Network And Sharing Center''
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# In the left margin, select 'Change adapter settings''
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# Right click your ethernet card (or similar) and select ''properties''
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# Select ''Internet Protocol Version 4'' and press the properties button
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# Click the ''Advanced'' button
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# Select the ''DNS'' tab
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# Press the ''Append these DNS suffixes (in order)'' button
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# Add your home server's domain name (eg. home.com)
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# Press the required OKs, apply, close ...

Latest revision as of 22:40, 2 April 2014

Sometimes, Vista and Windows 7 don't resolve the host-only Amahi uses. Here's a possible fix that worked for me on Vista/Windows 7

For Windows Vista

  1. From the menu, select Control Panel then Network Connections
  2. Right click your ethernet card (or similar) and select properties
  3. Select Internet Protocol Version 4 and press the properties button
  4. Click the "Advanced" button
  5. Select the DNS tab
  6. Press the "Append these DNS suffixes (in order)" button
  7. Add your home server's domain name (eg. home.com)
  8. Press the required OKs, apply, close ...


For Windows 7

  1. In Control Panel select Network And Sharing Center
  2. In the left margin, select 'Change adapter settings
  3. Right click your ethernet card (or similar) and select properties
  4. Select Internet Protocol Version 4 and press the properties button
  5. Click the Advanced button
  6. Select the DNS tab
  7. Press the Append these DNS suffixes (in order) button
  8. Add your home server's domain name (eg. home.com)
  9. Press the required OKs, apply, close ...
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