Ok just installed R5v27 and everything is going well, what i am confused about is before I was able to just type my host name into the location in a browser on the network and i would instantly be whisked off to my trusty mythweb. Now when I type the host name i get nothing, just ends up in a site not found. Before i had a static IP setup and i have not put that back into place yet, any possiblity that this could be the cause or what would be causing this. I can get to mythweb if i just use the ip address but it was much nicer to just use the host name.

you need some form for DNS to convert the name to an IP address. I have a dyndns entry setup to point to my router WAN IP. the router forwards reasonable requests to the myth box.

I assume you are not running a DNS server on you lan.

Another approach is to add an entry into the host file on the machine that you are using IE and entering the hostname. add a line that maps the IP to the name

On my XP machine the file is:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

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Sounds to me like you may have a Samba issue. Is Samba running? If so check your smb.conf file to see what name you are broadcasting. That is the name the network will resolve to. My smb.conf:

[global]
load printers = yes
guest account = nobody
name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .
socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192
preserve case = yes
obey pam restrictions = yes
encrypt passwords = true
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
dns proxy = no
printing = bsd
server string = Mythtv2
invalid users = root
unix password sync = false
workgroup = MD01
syslog only = no
os level = 20
printcap name = /etc/printcap
syslog = 0;
security = user
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
short preserve case = yes
max log size = 1000

This frontend box resolves to myhttv2. (http://mythtv2)

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That could be it, haven't setup samba yet on the machine. i'll setit up and get back

Yep it was samba, set it up and all is working as expected. Thanks