computer name to ip

[Frederik]

Hi all,

Situation:
- 2 computers behind router/switch
- dhcp enabled on router
- computer name 1 = cpuA (WinXP Pro)
- computer name 2 = cpuB (WinXP Home)
- cpuA and cpuB can access each other's resources
- cpuA runs IIS with asp.net website

Problem:
- How can cpuB always get access to the asp.net website 'being served' on
cpuA
without knowing the IP of cpuA (which is always changing). I tried:
"http://cpuA/<rest_of_address>" and "\\cpuA\<rest_of_address>" but both
without
any luck. It does work when I use the IP address instead
(http://<IP>/<rest_of_address>). Do I need to add some dns stuff to get it
working?

Regards and thanks for your time,
Frederik

 

[David Angelovich]

Are they both on the same subnet or at least the same domain/workgroup?

 

[Frederik]

Are they both on the same subnet or at
least the same domain/workgroup?

Yes, they are both on the same workgroup.

Frederik