activate lmhost on WinXP

[Guest]

Hello Everybody,

There's 2 ip subnet on our network, say A (192.168.0.0) and B (192.168.1.0).
The NT server on subnet B, with some shared folder.

The case is that when I bring back new computer which equipped with XP Home
setup on subnet A. I modified the relavant lmhosts on XP -->
c:\windows\...\etc\, say:

192.168.1.100 nt-server #PRE #

and then execute:

c:\nbtstat -R

After that, I cannot connect that nt-server, indeed I can ping its ip
(192.168.1.100) successfully, how come?

Is that the problem of name solving of NBT?
How to activate lmhosts on XP?
Is that lmhosts fade out on WinXP?

Thanks & Regards!

 

[Dusty Harper {MS}]

In XP LMHosts is one of the last means of translating the name.
Name Resolution occurs something like:
Local DNS cache
Hosts
DNS quuery
Local WINs cache
LMHosts
WINS
Broadcast

If an answer is received from any method, then anything lower does not get
executed.

Also, NetBIOS over TCPIP needs to be enabled on the XP machine for WINs
resolution. The default is On unless a DHCP option turns it off.

Also the name resolution can be somewhat configured by setting the mode (
M-mode H- Mode and P- Mode )