SMB mapping 127.0.0.1 to remote

[Matthew Geddes]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, David Lechnyr wrote:

> My theory (and where I need the insight/help) is this:  Under Win9x, there
> does not appear to be a way to map a drive letter to an IP address; you have
> to use lmhosts entry.  However, under Win2k, you _can_ map to an ip address
> without using lmhosts, and it works flawlessly.  Given Microsoft's (ahem)
> poor history with code re-use, is it possible that this is not a result of a
> re-designed GUI, but rather somewhere in the packet headers, the mapped name
> is stored and results in an error if it's not an IP?  I've attempted to use
> the same "localhost   127.0.0.1" entry on both server and client lmhosts
> (with #PRE on the Win9x box), but each and every time it fails.

I believe the behaviour you described is also possible under Windows
NT. Win9x uses a different code base than Win2K (which shares a lot of
code with Windows NT - hence the "build on NT technology" message on the
Win2K splash screen).

I hope this is of some help,
Matt