lmhosts

[David Callaghan]

>GlacierHi all,
>        i am puzzled by what i need to do for my windoze machine to map a
>drive to a samba server. kept getting unable to browse the computer but able
>to ping the samba server. tried mapping "net use z: \\samba_hostname\folder"
>and "net use z: \\samba_ip_address\folder" but still encounter that error
>message.Had a hosts file in c:\windows. in the end had to remove hosts file
>and add in lmhosts and it works! miracle! i thought lmhosts files is
>obselete?? any ideas?

If a Windows pc is not a WINS server or client, its configured as a b-node machine. A b-node computer uses IP addresses for name resolution. Lmhosts is used to map netbios names to ip addresses and is used on all versions of Windows over WFWG including Win XP.