>The differense in hosts and lmhosts on your windows computer is hosts says
>what IP goes with what hostname.domain.name, and lmhosts file allows you to
>associate a hostname with an IP so you don't have to use the full domain
>name in your commands and such.
>
>And not sure, but I think you have to restart windows once you change those,
>so they are read.
PMFJI, I haven't read all the messages under this header, so I don't
know why host files are being discussed in the context of Samba, but to
clarify:
hosts -- is used for DNS name resolution
lmhosts -- is used for Netbios name resolution
and Windows does not have to be restarted.
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