Wins and LMHOST

[LASTGUY2GETPS2]

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?

 

[Garion]

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.

- G

 

[LASTGUY2GETPS2]

so with lmhost i can make www.chase.com go to www.google.com by adding a new entry?

 

[JackMDS]

Link to: Windows Host File- What is it and How to Mange it?

Link to: Microsoft LMHOST File.

:sun:

 

[Garion]

Originally posted by: LASTGUY2GETPS2
so with lmhost i can make www.chase.com go to www.google.com by adding a new entry?

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.

- G