Simple Question
 

Again, a long time since I have tried...

I have a camera on a fixed IP address. I have to remember the IP address to access it.
How do I go about giving it a name outside a bookmark where I can just type the camera name into Firefox.

TIA

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On one computer, it's easy enough. For all computers on your network it's harder.

For just one PC:

Start => Run (or Win Key + R), notepad C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Add line as required, save, exit.

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Create an account with DYNDNS or NOIP and link it to that IP... or if you have a domain name of your own you should be able to create an A record that'll point directly to the IP for example camera.domain.com

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Doesn't seem to work....This is from my host file

# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

192.168.1.104 white.cam.com
# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost

Whatever I put before the address returns "File Not Found" on Firefox.

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When you ping white.cam.com what does it give you?

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I have no idea how to paste an image into a message put it seems to resolve the IP address to 192.168.1.104 and gives a time of 54 ms and a TTL to 64ms.

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And what do you get in a browser of you type in http://white.cam.com from the same PC ??

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Why are you using white.cam.com at all, why not just 'white'

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Firefox cannot establish a connection to the server at white.cam.com

---------- Post added at 12:28 ---------- Previous post was at 12:26 ----------

Because I have tried white.com, whitecam.com, white.cam.com. etc etc. The example given in the host file had xx.yy.com so I thought I would give it a go.

With this problem and my posted on going NAS issue I am beginning to believe Win7 is a white elephant. No such problems on XP.

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Is the camera running on port 80 or another port?

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Hmm, looks more like bad connection handling in the camera itself to me - if the IP is correct and connecting direct to the IP works, then the only difference via domain name is the client sending the name to the server in the request tag - which it should handle fine.

Unless you have some general problem with your Win7 networking being borked - I've had no real problems on 7 myself... We're rolling out XP => Win7 upgrades to a few thousand machines right now, and so far not had any networking or file-sharing problems I've heard of. In fact it's working more smoothly than XP did far as I can see.

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Kimmy
Yep it's on port 80.

I am beginning to think my network is borked and don't know how to un-bork it.

Ta for all the suggestions. I will have to remeber the IP of the camera and ditch the NAS as a bad idea.

Just seems odd that such simple things like this are a headache while tunneling in to my network via VPN which required DynDNS amongst other things works fine.

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My thoughts would to be to clean up any antivirus or firewall software, along with any previous installs of Norton/Symantic crap.

On top of that, the following commands are quite good for resetting borked ntetwork stacks:

netsh int ip reset all
netsh firewall reset
netsh winsock reset all
netsh int 6to4 reset all
netsh int ipv4 reset all
netsh int ipv6 reset all
netsh int httpstunnel reset all
netsh int isatap reset all
netsh int portproxy reset all
netsh int tcp reset all
netsh int teredo reset all

Course any network settings you do have will be erased, so be sure to note down any fixed IP, DNS settings, etc.

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Thanks. I had tried much of the above without any luck.

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I gave up on the Addonics NAS and bought a Seagate Go Flex as they are quite cheap at Maplins.

As usual, the supplied software is pants and installed all sorts of trash but after a bit of jiggery pokery setting up a fixed IP via the MAC address on the router (didn't realise you could do that) all is well and can be seen by all PCs and notebook without any special drivers.

Ta to all who gave suggestions.

WP