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RE: Re: Windows Mapped Drives - Strange
- Subject: RE: Re: Windows Mapped Drives - Strange
- From: "Hawes,Timothy Edward \(GEG\)" <haweste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:52:48 +0100
Have you updated your "hosts" file to include all your name-IP
address
info ?
(not sure it'll actually solve it, but may do)
My hosts file is stored in "C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc" (XP
Pro)
Cheers,
Tim H.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: automatedhomeuk Sent: 27 September 2004 10:50
>
> > I think that the name resolution uses WINS and that WINS is a bit
> > tighter on XP. It'd going to be to do with which machine
> thinks it is
> > the WINS server and is prepared to do a name to IP address
> > translation. If no machine offers to do that, then you
> will get what
> > you are seeing.
>
> I recently turned off DHCP server on my Win2K box and turned
> it on on my router instead. Would this have anything to do
> with it? How do I find out which machine is "WINS Server"?
>
> Thanks
>
> M.
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