I have a home PC running Windows 10, no domain controller, and therefore by default I do not have a FQDN for the machine.
I am trying to setup some server software for testing purposes, and it requires that I use a FQDN.
How can I manipulate my hosts file to mimic a FQDN?
Extra info, please let me know in comments if you need more.
There will be no other machines trying to access this other than the machine I am running the software on (my home PC)
I also think that my IP address is not static.
I believe you can just add a host entry corresponding to the IP address of your machine to all machines that need to address it using its FQDN. The hosts file can be found in System32\Drivers\etc. Just add an entry with your IP and the host to it, for example 192.168.0.1 mymachine.local.
Another option would be setting up your own DNS server which is relatively harder. The biggest problem is presented by you not having a static IP address, you should either set a static IP or configure your DHCP server to reserve an IP for you based on your adapter's MAC address.
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I have cloned a Linux box under VMWare and I would like to use this clone server as a dev server. The clone server is turned off as its IT address will conflict with my production server. I have tried to change its IP address by going to Edit VM setting using VMware workstation but I could not see any option to change IP address. I could only see and generate a new MAC address.
I have also used Vsphere Web client and look for an option to set the IP address but could not see any option.
I guess the only option I have to to shut down my production server, turn on my dev server, change its IP address and then turn on my production server.
Is there any other way to achieve this?
Thanks
Al
Here's The Scoop,
I used SET (Social Engineering Toolkit) and made duplicite of a login page, the ip that was used was 10.0.2.15 (Mind you this is on a virtual machine Virtualbox), and when I tried to view it on another computer, it says the server is not responding.I tried to port forward but it was giveing me issues.
is there anything I can do to port forward or do something like that to make the web page connected to the IP viewable on the World Wide Web of another computer.
In other words, the IP's page is only viewable on the same computer who's ip I used to host, can you make it viewable on any computers browser by port forwarding it or something that will work like that.
Use bridging networking for the guest machine. Then, that IP address should be accessible on your network if there are no firewalls enabled.
There are several issues with directly accessing this IP from a separate computer.
First, the forwarding: the computer with the VirtualMachine must accept ip forwarding. This is easy to enable:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Internet_sharing
Second, the routing: other computers must know who to ask when looking for 10.0.2.15. This is the hardest part. You could try adding a special route rule on the other computer, to set the host as a gateway for 10.0.2.15, but it requires you to make this on every machine that wishes to access the VM.
As Ahmed said, the easiest way is probably to use a network bridge, where the virtual machine will act as any other computer on the network, with a visible IP.
I have just installed an virtual Linux system. I was trying to access is from a different location but I could get trough.
When I have looked up the ip-address (ifconfig) on the system, which is:
inet addr: 10.0.2.15
but I still cant seem to manage it. Can anyone help?
It depends on virtualizing software you're using, but address pretty much looks like NATed. In that case you can't directly access it, unless you'll configure VM to map virtual network controller directly to host network.
What do you mean with different location? 10.x.x.x are private IP addresses, which can only be accessed within its subnet. What IP address does the host system have?
If the host system is within 192.168.x.x subnet, then an outside computer cannot know how to access 10.x.x.x when there is no route. You have then to set up NAT on your host computer.
A more easier approach would be to use bridged networking which will then eventually get an IP address through DHCP from your router (or whatever you might have).
I installed IIS on a laptop (win 7 professional 64 bit).
Created a website. I been able to view the website within the network.
If i type 192.168.0.227/vdv (local host ip address)(laptop's ip).
Now i need to access this website from outside the network.
I bought a WiFi modem and connected to the lap (now lap is disconnected from LAN). The modem has a dynamic IP & lap is assigned 192.168.100.100. Now i need to access the website which is in the laptop from outside the network .
How to do ?
If I am reading your post correctly, you are running IIS locally but you are having problems connecting when your local IP changes.
By Default, IIS binds to all IP addresses, so it really shouldn't matter if you use your LAN ip or Modem IP. Either way, for simplicity you should either be using localhost or 127.0.0.1 or your machine name as your address. This won't change when your local IP does.
First see if http://localhost/vdv works. If it does then continue to use that, otherwise you may need to change the bindings in your local IIS installation or your application. Make sure it's not listening on a specific IP address.
Take a look at this article for more information: http://blogs.technet.com/b/chrad/archive/2010/01/24/understanding-iis-bindings-websites-virtual-directories-and-lastly-application-pools.aspx
Is their a way to access a web server such as windows server 2003 installed on a virtual box such as vmware from the host machine?
If VMware is set to use bridged networking, then each guest OS effectively has its own IP address, like brien said, you just point your browser to that address.
If you configure your virtual machine to use bridged networking, instead of NAT, it will have its own IP address "beside" the host machine, instead of a local IP address "behind" it. Then you can connect to the virtual machine, using that IP number.
(Disclaimer: I've used VMware workstation for several years, but not their server products.)
Yes, you should just be able to point to the IP address of the VM.
How is your VM networking configured?
I am doing this all over the place, just make sure that the vm has an ip configured.
i believe vmware (workstation?) also has built in a virtual network client (VNC) that you can connect to - enable it by going to the configuration properties of the vm, and in the last tab there is a checkbox for it.
IP address should do it.
I faced the same issue. You have to set your networkconnection to "bridged mode" in your VM. Then you have to find out the IP of your Webserver.
Sometimes Webservers have a redirect to a specific URL. In this case you can edit your host-file in C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts and add your IP with the redirected URL like this:
192.168.0.37 some.url-you.need
Then your Host can go to the Webserver. Even participants of your Ethernet can access the Webserver.