Have you ever tried using LMHOSTS tables? Here is the link back to the
Microsoft support site. I hope this helps!
Gil
----- Original Message -----
From: Mikko Kiviharju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 12:42 AM
Subject: Re: [NetMeeting] When can you use a machine name to contact a
NetMeeting user?
>
> > You need a DHCP server to translate machine names to IP addresses.
> .
> Or a DNS, which actually preceded DHCP-servers.
> .
> > There is no machine name-to-IP address translation
> > per-se,
> .
> DNS is, and it can be categorized as a directory server as well as
> a DHCP-server.
> .
> > > someone on my LAN using their computer name,
> .
> The reason for this is that in most LANs the network protocol is
> TCP/IP and the workstations Windows-based. They recommend
> you to put the computer-ID/account-name equal with (one of) its
> DNS-translations. If you'll refer to a computer with IP-address
> 192.168.200.0 as \\WORKSTATION1, you'll most likely have
> also a DNS-name for it such as workstation1.mydomain.com.
> .
> If this is not the case, you cannot call to it, either. In Win9x and NT4
> the ID is in Start-Settings-Control Panel-Network-Identification, and the
> DNS-name suggested is in the Network-applet as well, but you'll
> have to choose Protocols-TCP/IP-properties.
> .
> > > I can't contact
> > > someone on the internet using their computer name,
> > > can I?
> .
> In general, no. Then again, if you define "a computer name" to consist
> of the computer-name and domain-suffix(es), and if such a DNS-name
> exists in some DNS-server your DNS-server has a path to, then yes.
> .
> t m
>
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