lmhosts is for NetBeui over TCP/IP. A more useful file is
'hosts' (start from hosts.sam), as in the Unix world.
If you have TCP/IP binded to your network card, you should
easily 'ping' (ping.exe) other machines in your lan, or
others 'ping' you, if you have previously assigned private
IP addresses (such as 192.168.x.y). In the machine I use
right now, I find its private IP address (10.0.0.4) with
regedit under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/Class/N
etTrans/0008.
This machine can be pinged with 'ping 10.0.0.4' or 'ping
this_machine' with an adequate input on others' 'hosts'
file, and viceversa it can ping others.
Pinging is a very easy way to check your network card.
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Javier Vizcaino. Ability Electronics. [log in to unmask]
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  Starting point:        (-1)^(-1) = -1
  Applying logarithms: (-1)*ln(-1) = ln(-1)
  Since ln(-1) <> 0, dividing:  -1 = 1     (ln(-1) is
complex, but exists)


>I have added NetBeui to the protocols with no change.I have
the irq set
>on 9 which I have set in the cards eprom with the software
utility.It is
>the only irq open on the machine.I have also checked the
I/O adress and
>it is at 300-31f and was open.
> The lmhosts file was written according to directions in
the Win95
>lmhosts file.I have tried it without the "#" and the #PRE
with the same
>results.This file worked originally before I rebuilt one of
the
>computers.
>Thanks again
>Mike Bridges
>
>gary r. tennesen wrote:
>>
>>   Try adding NetBEUI to the protocols. <big snip>
>> --gary r. tennesen
>> [log in to unmask]

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