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DNS or NetBIOS problem

Posted: 02 Apr 2009, 21:33
by scott-2
Hi, this question might not be specific to Bubba, but I hope someone can help me out. I have two Windows XP PCs in my home LAN, plus my Bubba II.

On PC1, I cannot ping bubba, but I can ping bubba.localdomain.

On PC2, I can ping bubba, but in the output of the ping.exe program it translates the hostname to bubba.localdomain.

On PC1, I can ping PC2 (no pc2.localdomain construct is needed).

:?: What is going on here?

Something changed recently which caused this. Unfortunately it is messing up the iTunes library which I have set up on bubba. I would like to change this back so that I can access the bubba simply as bubba.

:?: Can someone help?

Posted: 03 Apr 2009, 12:04
by Per
Short answer: Edit the lmhost file.

Long answer : http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/51 ... 34239.html

Posted: 04 Apr 2009, 08:47
by scott-2
Great article on NetBIOS. I am all fixed now. Thanks! :)