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• 10-16-2008, 2:27 PM

  mohitg118 Joined on 10-16-2008, 6:25 PM Posts 1

  Accessing a site using user friendly name on the hosted server Reply Contact Hi, I have a site hosted on IIS 7.0, Windows 2008 enviro. It has been assigned an IP address. This IP address has WINS mapping configured to be accessed from a user friendly name. When I access this website from hosted server’s IE using the IP (ex: http://172.16.12.43/test.aspx ) it works fine but when it is accessed using user friendly name (ex: http://friendlyname/test.aspx ) it fails to serve the request and errors out with “Unauthorized” message. However both the URLs work fine from any other machine. Even pinging the friendly name on the server returns the correct IP address to which it is mapped . Is there any setting required on IIS server to make it accessible using the user friendly name ? Thanks, Mohit

• 10-16-2008, 11:09 PM

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  steve schofield Joined on 06-10-2002, 8:54 PM MI Posts 3,890

  Re: Accessing a site using user friendly name on the hosted server Reply Contact Assuming this is the only site hosted on the server, I'd verify bindings are listening on * (asterik), which means all IP's.  Or you can have a binding that has the Friendlyname in there.  To locate the bindings, go to IIS Manager > Sitess > SiteName Right Click, select Edit Bindings.  What is listed there? Steve Schofield Windows Server MVP - IIS http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield http://www.IISLogs.com Log archival solution Install, Configure, Forget