[COMP] Re: since the list is quite...could I get some LMhosts help please?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bruce Jr" <dbartbruce@xxxxxxxx>
To: <computers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 6:31 PM
Subject: [COMP] Re: since the list is quite...could I get some LMhosts help 
please?


> 
> Thanks, umm...
> 
> you wrote:
> "Unless you want to use IP addresses to do your network mappings"
> 
> mappings?
> 

lmhosts is used for _lan-manager_ hosts, afaik you do not 
want that nor do you want to use that file for TCP/IP name resolution.  
What you want to use instead is hosts.  Look at hosts.sam in 
your windows directory, that is what you want.  Modify it, save it 
(without a file extension), and it should work.

> the only way I know what to do with a mapped drive is to get it
> to
> show up in windows explorer so I don't have to go hunting thru
> network neighborhood every time I want to get or put a file on
> another box...
> 

Right, that's how you do it.  For security purposes samba can
also authenticate users for a windows NT domain.

> This leads me to think that there is more to mapping than just
> putting
> a short cut to an external box...
>

Yes, there is.  Whenever you connect to a network drive
it is  totally diferent than accessing a local drive.  
You are accessing data on a drive which is not physically
a part of your system, and this raises some serious 
and legitimate security concerns.
 
> methinks linux will not be *visible* (which can be interpreted
> many ways?)

On windows, if you can't see it, then it isn't on the network.
If users can't click on it ... well it must not be there!  haha! :)

> until I get the boxes to *see* each other via tcp/ip
>

Try pinging your linux server from the windows clients.
If there is a response, then you know that the physical
network connection is good, and take it from there.
 
> 
> umm, I'm supposed to NOT use the # symbol...right?
>

In the hosts file, consider any line beginning with 
a '#' to be a comment.
 
> isn't the ampersand supposed to be for *commenting*?

Depends on which language your using.

> and commenting is something you do so the code won't
> be run- isn't it put there as a human readable note?
> like a cgi script- if ya take the # off
> the machine will run the code
> put the # in front
> and the machine will disregard what follows?

Right, that's a comment.

# These lines will not be seen as a host entry
# in the file, but the next one will

192.168.1.1    myserver.net

... after doing that, "ping myserver.net" will
make the machine with this in it's file start
trying to ping 192.168.1.1 on your network. 

> 
> 
> Ok, the first *column* is the ip address?
> 

Yes

> What is the second column for ? the computer name?
> 

Right

> (probably not...computer names are only needed for windows?)
> 

Computer names are needed for everything when it comes
to networking.  What do you think happens when you open
a web browser and get www.sony.com?  That is just a name, 
which _resolves_ to an IP address.

> What is the last column for???
>

Another name that could be resolved to that IP.

Still, for small LAN's host files will work well enough.
Methinks you might have greater problems than that, though.
 
-- 
Mark


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