It’s easier to access by name than by IP. That’s what the DNS and WINS is for if you have them set in your network, but there are devices that are not registered and are only accessed by specific people.

Your switches, routers, firewalls, etc.

If you type in a name, it has to be resolved to an IP, before going to the DNS, your windows machine will check its hosts’s file, to see if it is listed there.

You’ll find your Hosts file in:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

Open hosts file with notepad and enter information in the following format:

ip hostname

example:

10.10.10.2    Core1

To verify your settings, try pinging by name and you should see how the name is resolved.

I’ve been using this for a long time, I even copy my hosts file and pass it around for ease of access to other network admins.