on a second thought I noticed something (my colleague Dario pointed me on it)

you say
the binding of domain and host.
but you're writing on the "Unable to find the Engine" thread. Which is exactly your problem? Do you see the "unable to find the engine...." message or you can't just connect?

you wrote in your hosts file
192.168.1.88 mycompany.net
and then set the LSHost as laptop.mycompany.net. Are you sure that with such setting you can access your local servers through the laptop.mycompany.net address?
Note that the name of the http_server element of the lightstreamer conf is just an helper used for logging purposes and has no effect on the system.


HTH