Connecting to a Windows Vista box by name

[wrldwzrd89]

Is this possible in Mac OS X? I can connect to it by IP just fine.

Example: Let's say my Windows Vista machine has 525.432.774.900 as its IP address, and its name is Vista-PC. Going to Go->Connect to Server in Finder and typing smb://525.432.774.900/ works, but I can't get smb://Vista-PC/ to work.

I know the IP address I used isn't a valid IP address

 

[varmit]

Nope

Not without a DNS server since that is what assigns names to ip addresses.