timothyddx

Example on our corporate network: https://application (with application being sharepoint or some other software application hosted internally). I am inside the firewall (wireless) and am authenticated on our network. I have tried this on both my Droid2 and Xoom using both the standard browser and Dolphin. Is this possible? I also had an iPhone4 and Ipad2 user try this and they had no luck. Since this site is not external with a TLD (.com, .net, .edu) will any browser let me resolve the site using our internal DNS?

Ivan34

Anyone figure this out?

UncleMike

It's likely that the internal server has a static IP address. Try substituting the IP address for the name and see if that works. If it does, you can just bookmark it for later use.

Try something like https://192.168.1.10 (substituting the appropriate IP address)

Ivan34

Problem is we have a home page that has links to other intranet sites. We're testing tablets for company use,and this is kind of a deal breaker if we can't have users connect to the VPN/WIFI and not be able to use our intranet home page.

John Redcorn

This is handled in windows by the domain suffix search order provided to the PC by the dhcp server. It's possible android doesn't have a domain suffix search, I really don't know.

On a windows PC do ipconfig /all and see if you have anything listed for dns suffix or domain suffix. If so, try and view the site from the tablet by typing

intranet.mycompany.com or whatever your internal domain name is that's listed from the ipconfig /all.

IMO, it's not the best practice to have links on your intranet home page that have short names, short names are easy to type into an address bar but links from a page really should be fully qualified.

vobguy

Hmm, ok so I am assuming you are hooked to your internal wifi, and for whatever reason your internal DNS/name resolution servers are not finding those hosts when not fully qualified. As John Redcorn pointed out that probably means the PCs in your domain have a DNS/domain suffix defined.

In linux we can do this by editing /etc/resolv.conf to include the following on the top line (*but I have not tried this on android before and my phone doesn't have the file so no guarantees):

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If all else fails, you could get a list of the servers needed and their IP addresses and add them to /etc/hosts on the tablet, I notice my phone does have that file but I do not know if it uses it.

edgeicator

Have you tried accessing it similar to an SMB share? //application and such.