W2k Question

[Justin Bennett]

that was it, after some googling I arrived at the same ans.

Thanks!
Justin

David Purucker said:
> Hello,
>
> The real problem is the router, which may not be configurable enough to
> do what he wants.
>
> As to your other question....
>
>>What I suggested is to setup a host entry on the w2k client for his
>> ODS.ORG hostname to his internal 192.168.120.40 address. Finally my
>> question, I'm looking at his lmhosts file, how would I add an entry
>> for: hostname.ods.org 192.168.120.40
>>
>>or would I do it in a different file?
>
> It would use a different file for a FQDN:
>
>      %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
>
> a standard hosts file, same as UNIX/Linux.
>
> ----------------hosts example---------------------
> # For example:
> #
> #  102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
> #   38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host
>
>      127.0.0.1   localhost
> 192.168.120.40   hostname.ods.org
> -----------------end example-----------------------
>
> Hope that was useful,
>
> Dave P.
>
>
>
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