samba - Aug 1998 - lmhosts

this may be a remedial question, but uh, what's /etc/lmhosts supposed to
be? smbclient always complains that it doesn't exist... should it?

thanks...

-E

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?


Regards,

Daniel Tan
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MIS Department
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>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.

What error are you getting on your linux box when you type in smbclient -L
<servername> -N

Cheers
Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Callaghan" <dcallaghan@mail.orbtech.tv>
To: <samba@lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: lmhosts

> >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.
>
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