Problems connecting via NT 4.0 SP 4

Seth Stone pepper at wtlug.org
Sun May 23 03:36:23 GMT 1999


On Sat, 22 May 1999, Adrian Goins wrote:

> it's always helpful to have an lmhosts file on the Windoze box to help the
> poor thing figure things out.  on Win95/98 this file is
> %SYSTEMROOT%\hosts, and on NT4 the file is
> %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\lmhosts. 

  are you sure it's not lmhosts on Win9X too?  My understanding was:

  hosts = hostname to ip (overriding DNS/NIS resolution)
          same as *nix basically

  lmhosts = NetBIOS name to ip (overriding Windows resoluion)

Seth Stone <pepper at wtlug.org>



More information about the samba-ntdom mailing list