IE for Mac Intranet URL Problems

cdub · #1 June 17th, 2004, 02:25 PM

There are a few mac users here that are suddenly unable to view the intranet web site. Nomally they would type in http://hera and it would bring them there but instead IE autocompletes the URL and adds .com to the end. So it brings them to the german page hera.com. Does anybody know why this is happening. I have tried disabling autocomplete and it still happens. I would appreciate any help. Thanks.

symphonix · #2 June 17th, 2004, 07:31 PM

Does it work OK in other browsers?
Are you able to ping hera? To test this, go to Applications/Utilities and choose "Network Utility" and use the "Ping" tab.

**Cheryl** · #3 June 17th, 2004, 09:09 PM

If this is OS 9, there is not choice of Network Utility. Only in OS X.

Have you tried using Network Browser? That should be in the Applications (OS9) folder.

ITMegaMan · #4 June 9th, 2005, 06:07 AM

I have just figured out the same thing on my network. Windows users can just type 'intranet' in the address bar of their browser and up it pops. Mac users couldn't they got taken to www.intranet.com.

I have a Win2k3 server which is the DNS server and also hosts the intranet pages. In IIS it is configured so that it knows that the address 'intranet' it serves from local folders and doesn't go to the www.

On the Mac's I went into the Network Preferences panel and in the TCP/IP setup made sure that where it says 'DNS Server' pointed to the Windows DNS server using the IP address of the server. In 'Search domain' I entered the internal domain that all PC's/MAc's login to for file access/authorisation/etc

Hope that helps?