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kuplo

11-16-2005 04:48 AM

What do you enter for a host name

Hi,
is there anything special that ou shoud enter for a host name, or does it need to be one of my host name like www thriftyserve.com?

fouldsy

11-16-2005 04:51 AM

You can just enter any hostname you wish on a home machine if you're not running web services. Even then, it shouldn't cause a problem. Is more an issue on networked machines.

kuplo

11-16-2005 11:31 PM

What if you are running web services?

naughty penguin

11-17-2005 01:22 AM

It shouldn't be a problem to enter Host name whatever you like even if you are running Web Services.

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