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RE: Re: Windows Mapped Drives - Strange
- Subject: RE: Re: Windows Mapped Drives - Strange
- From: "Hawes,Timothy Edward \(GEG\)" <haweste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:08:32 +0100
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ady Joy Sent: 28 September 2004 21:53
>
> If you are trying to resolve 'windows computernames' to IP
> addresses (and if you are looking to make up for the fact
> that you don't have a WINS server then 'windows
> computernames' to IP is what you are trying to do) then you
> should look at creating a file called LMHOSTS in
> C:/windows/system32/drivers/etc. There is an example LMHOSTS
> file called LMHOSTS.SAM for you to peruse, but basically
> adding <ip.address> <computername> #PRE should do the
trick. i.e.
>
> 192.168.0.102 mydesktop #PRE
Thanks Ady, that makes it a bit clearer. Should the LMHOSTS file keep
the ".SAM" extension, or should it have no extension, like the
HOSTS
file ?
Thanks,
Tim.
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