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Asked: 2026-05-11T20:40:14+00:00

I think this is more a Mac networking configuration issue than anything else, but

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I think this is more a Mac networking configuration issue than anything else, but am not sure.

I have Subversion set up on my Windows Home Server machine (similar to this: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/RunningASubversionServerOffYourWindowsHomeServer.aspx). This setup has been working for me for months, using Windows clients.

Now I’m trying to add a Mac client, and it can’t resolve the network name of my WHS server. If I open a terminal window on the mac, and attempt to ping or use nslookup, I get an error that it can’t find the server. On the PC side, I can ping, but nslookup doesn’t resolve the name, so I’m assuming that PC’s ping is resolving the name as a NetBios name.

I’ve found a number of articles online that explain how to set up default suffixes based on Windows domains, but the Windows Home Server doesn’t establish a domain by default. (It’s in workgroup mode.)

Anyone have any suggestions or pointers?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The quick and easy way to get this working would be to add an entry to your host file on the MAC. You can find the file in /etc/hosts

    Edit the file and add an entry at the end as follows:

    <ip address>  <hostname>

    example:

    69.59.196.211 http://www.stackoverflow.com

    That is the way that I would go, and they mention using the host file in the article you posted. More info on editing the hostfile of different machines can be found here:

    http://practice.chatserve.com/hosts.html

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