Adding Search Domains in Windows XP

To my staff-----

So.... how to explain THIS...
Lesley has several locally hosted servers that control a number of internal functions such as the rooms database and the pay-for-print login server.
If you have tried to click on either of those links and have returned a Lesley "You can't go there" type page, it's probably because you don't have the "Search Domains" programmed into your Network Settings.

Have no fear!  You can do this very easily.

***Note:  These instructions are for Windows XP... and are crude.

So to explain what a "Search Domain" really is... it's basically telling your computer to examine internal resources before trying to do an external search.  so in the case of the print server.... the login for the print server is typically:  http://10.157.32.91:9191...
so that means that the server that logs you in to check your credits is located at the IP address: 10.157.32.91 on Port # 9191....  the computer IP10.157.32.91 happens to have a "hostname" of printsrv-main... *which is what it is named on the the network.... all computers on our classrooms network are part of a big directory, so ideally, if you tell your computer to search the "directory" address for hostnames, it will let you use the hostname of the computer instead of the IP address...

so.... http://10.157.32.91:9191  or http://printsrv-main:9191
the latter is the easier to remember, definitely.

so...
how do you tell your computer that "printsrv-main" should redirect to "10.157.32.91"?????
follow these instructions:

Open your network connections...double-click OR right-click on your ethernet (or wireless)..
Select "properties"
Select TCP/IP, then select "configure"
Select "Advanced"
Under Advanced, click on the DNS tab
Then add these to the prefixes:

lesley.lu.lesley.edu

lu.lesley.edu

lesley.edu

and why do you need or want to know this?

in the event you sit at a computer and try to access local servers, it does a google search instead....