Re: Workstation logon error.

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From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:03:21 -0500

When placed in the LMhosts file, the #PRE loads the IP address, host name and Domain into a
cache. Therefore it doesn't have to resolve a name to IP or Domain, the workstation "knows"
the info already.

LMHosts == LAN Manager Hosts Table, a NetBIOS table use to specifically identify NetBIOS
names to IP addresses and Domains in MS Networking environments. 

-- 
Dave
"Jordan Samulaitis" <jordan@jvsDELETEnetworks.com> wrote in message
news:Or9RdVR$EHA.1524@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
| And what exactly does the
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| 192.168.1.X  SERVER-NAME  #PRE #DOM:AD_DOMAIN_NAME
|
| command do? just authorize yourself in active directory??
|
|
| "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
| news:eNbO01Q$EHA.824@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
| > Replies are inline...
| >
| > "Jordan Samulaitis" <jordan@jvsDELETEnetworks.com> wrote in message
| > news:O0ITyvQ$EHA.1264@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
| > | The workstations are on the same lan segment
| > |
| > | The DC is on the same LAN
| > |
| > | I am not using wins..
| > |
| > | I have not inputed an entry in the lmhosts file, should I? and if so how
| > | would i go about that?
| > |
| >
| > Yes -- use on workstation
| > 192.168.1.X  SERVER-NAME  #PRE #DOM:AD_DOMAIN_NAME
| >
| > | I have not tried that nbtstat command, what does it do????
| >
| > Execute the following for syntax...
| > NBTSTAT /?
| >
| > Ping uses TCP/IP to check if a host is "live".
| >
| > MS Networking use NetBIOS over IP so you use NBTSTAT to find if the two
| platforms can
| > communicate using NetBIOS.
| >
| > Dave
| >
| >
| >
|
|

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