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

Thanks John,

since I want to be able to *see* the linux box from windows
network neighborhood does that also mean I HAVE to setup
a lmhosts file?

Let me rephrase that...

a host file does what?

a lmhosts files does what?

thanks a bunch
David Jr

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Madden" <weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <computers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 12:21 AM
Subject: [COMP] Re: since the list is quite...could I get some
LMhosts help please?


>
> > 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.
>
> Yeah, he's doing lan manager hosts though, not inet hosts.
This is all
> for netbios stuff.
>
> John
>
>
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