I think MS just did us (and themselves) a disservice.

Wulf C. Krueger wk at mailstation.de
Wed Jan 10 21:35:52 GMT 2001


> An no. It won't work. an WinNT box will only respond to 
> requests to it's own name,
> _or_ to *SMBSERVER as the netbiosname.

This is wrong. For using the second set of credentials just use the IP for
connecting as was already stated:

> > A small hack which you can try is to replace 
> > the server (hostname) with its IP address, e.g. 

True. Read MS KB Q173199.

> What about this methods ? 

Needlessly complicated. 

Regards, Wulf
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