Tim: >> You'd only need to know the number of your box to connect to it. Ashley M. Kirchner: > This is what's happening now. And it's that last part that I want > to avoid, having to know or remember each machine's port number. It's > easier to remember a [firstname].domain.com combination than it is to > figure out what the port number for [firstname] is. How do you remember which box you want, at the moment? If you want to connect to the box in the lab out the back, do you look up a name on a chart or remember all the host names? Perhaps a helper client on your end would be the trick. You enter what you want, it looks up the details, and issues the appropriate connection request. -- (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
