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Principle
To browse Cooperation-iws server intranet server you need to grab the ip address or the host and domain name of the server. When you browse internet, you usually enter the url (unique resource locator), the address of the site you want to visit. The url is then converted to an IP address with the domain name service resolution (DNS).
The principle is the following:
Browser => URL => DNS => IP address of the server
When you are on Intranet, you usually have two possibilities, either you directly pick up the IP address of the server (It is more easy to remember, as there is less server than on Internet), either you pick up the hostname and domain name of the server (if any).
The IP address is dynamically allocated by the dhcp server of the server, so it may change when you poweroff or reboot your router, this is why it is better to browse by domain name.
Process
Browse by IP address
If you want to know the IP address of a server, you need to open a session on the server by login in with your credentials. You then need to open up a terminal. Depending on your graphical environment it is usually in the accessories menu for Gnome or Xfce and in System for Kde.
When you have open up a terminal enter the following command in the terminal:
sudo ifconfig
Sudo is to temporarily become root and ifconfig is the command to see netwrok card paremeter.
If a password is ask for sudo, enter your login password (Cooperation for default and community releases) You should get the following screenshot.
The IP address of the server is listed in the network card (eth0, eth1, ...) parameter. In the screenshot example this is the network card eth1 with the IP address of 192.168.1.198.
Browse by domain name
The domain name is provided by the embedded DNS server of your Cooperation-iws gateway. The domain name will always be the same disregarding the IP address changes.
Either you know the default domain name of a server that is provided on the download area parameters, either you don't know it and you need to find it.
If you do not know the domain name of the server, install nmap network scanner on your client:
Update your software repositories:
sudo apt-get update
Install nmap:
sudo apt-get install nmap
Then you need to run nmap in the ip range of your Intranet. With the example of the following screenshot the IP address of the server is 192.168.1.198, so the IP range is 192.168.1.0/24.
Enter the following command:
nmap 192.168.1.0/24
You should get the following screen:
Starting Nmap 4.53 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2009-02-03 08:32 UTC
All 1714 scanned ports on dev-client.cooperation-iws.intra (192.168.100.1) are c
Interesting ports on 192.168.100.2: Not shown: 1711 closed ports PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 111/tcp open rpcbind 7001/tcp open afs3-callback
Interesting ports on gateway.cooperation-iws.intra (192.168.100.254): Not shown: 1709 closed ports PORT STATE SERVICE 53/tcp open domain 80/tcp open http 111/tcp open rpcbind 3000/tcp open ppp 10000/tcp open snet-sensor-mgmt
Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (3 hosts up) scanned in 1.591 seconds
There is three host on the network:
IP address | Hostname.DomainName
192.168.100.1 | dev-client.cooperation-iws.intra
192.168.100.2 | No domain name
192.168.100.254 | gateway.cooperation-iws.intra
To browse the gateway server, enter http://gateway.cooperation-iws.intra/ in the url field of your favorite browser.