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Wins and LMHOST

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LASTGUY2GETPS2

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Can someone describe what these are and what they're used for? A think WINS allows NETBIOS names to be converted to IP addresses what about LMHOST?
 
Correct on the WINS answer, but remember that it's the short name "mymachine.foo.com" just gets registered as "mymachine". LMHOSTS is the just a local file on your machine that you can manually enter entries on, much like HOSTS is a way to enter DNS names.

WINS and LMHOSTS are primarily leftovers from NT4 - Win2K+ using Active Directory depend on DNS, not WINS.

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Originally posted by: LASTGUY2GETPS2
so with lmhost i can make www.chase.com go to www.google.com by adding a new entry?
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No, WINS and LMHOSTS are used exclusively for microsoft networking connections. Not browsing the Internet - That's DNS and HOSTS.

Right now, it's impossible to create aliases to point one domain name to another - DNS just maps a domain name to an IP address. So, you could make www.chase.com go to the IP ADDRESS of google.com.

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