Thursday, April 24, 2008

Changing the Hosts file to enable NetBIOS name resolution (vs ip)

Copy new Hosts files (LMHost and Host) to %System Root%\system32\drivers\etc\

Cmd exec nbtstat -R

Cmd exec ipconfig /flushdns

Works for SQL, RDC and the file system (i.e. \\net-biosname\c$ vs. \\ip\c$ )

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