Setting up a host name

For security reasons, the Maxpro driver does not use an IP address for the Supervisor PC. Instead your PC must be configured with a host name.

Prerequisites: You are working outside of Workbench using Windows 10. You have Notepad (or some other text editor) on your PC.

There are three parts to a host name: the location to redirect the address to (an IP address), the host name you want to redirect and a comment: 00.00.00.00 localhost #host name for this computer

where 00.00.00.00 is the PC’s IP address on the network and localhost is the host name

Perform the following steps:

Click Start, locate Notepad, right-click Notepad and select Run as administrator.
ClickFile > Open and navigate to: c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hostsand click Open.
The host file opens.
Enter the host name and click Save.

Setting up a host name

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