Connecting to smoothwall with IE

I went straight from Win 2000 to Win Xp SP2, so I'm not sure if this is 
a issue with the SP2 upgrade, but I found that connecting to a machine 
on the green network (without a domain name) would not work from Win XP.

Connecting to any other machine anywhere (with a domain name) was OK.

I tried http://smoothwall.:81 (note the "." after the smoothwall) and 
found that this worked.

I then added the "." to the Win XP domain setup, and it all worked 
sweetly.  I may have missed something here in either the problem, but I 
was very annoyed that the DNS didn't work properly (for me) on the green 
network, as I have all my other machines also without domain names.

I also found that I needed the http://smoothwall:81 instead of 
smoothwall:81 for IE, but no other browser. (I routinely use Mozilla)

FYI:- the DNS setup I altered was:- (properties)My network 
places(properties)=>(properties)local area connection=>(general 
tab)Internet protocol(TCPIP)(properties)=>(advanced)=>(DNS tab)=>append 
these DNS suffixes (in order)=>(add)"."

After this, dns requests for bare host names worked OK.

This is not an issue for other machines on my net running Linux or Win 98SE.

Hope this helps until someone can point out the real solution.
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