[CS-FSLUG] networking details #1

[Bradly McConnell]

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 21:20:03 -0500, Frank Bax <fbax at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 
> 
> Yes, but unnecessary.  For simple routing such as what you are setting up,
> these machines will always refer to each other by their ip addresses, not
> names.  So entries in hosts files are not required.  If you plan to use
> something like PuTTY to access your FreeBSD account from the windows
> machines, then a hosts file like your example would be a good thing to have
> on both machines.
> I always thought the file on windows was: C:\WINDOWS\HOSTS
> But I just checked a system with SP2 and its C:\Windows\System32\etc\hosts
> 
> Frank

I know with NT4 and below (I think even LANMAN) you also had the
LMHOSTS file, that Windows looked at first, then the HOSTS file.  I'm
not sure if they dropped it on 2K and up.
Brad