I am just a student who is trying to learn networking. One of the problems that I have had are lousy teachers, who either know the subject and don't know how to teach, or teachers who don't know the subject, and don't know how to teach. Therefore I could use some help. I would be very thankful.
I need clarification using netbios names and host names, and name resolution. Here is what I know, netbios name can use a LMHOST file for name resolution, while a HOST is used for tcp names for name resolution, both which have to be created. Which brings me to a point I need clarified. When you name a computer when installing, that would be the netbios name correct. For instance if I named the computer "FRED". Then the host name would be "fred.com" correct? Which would be considered a tcp/ip name? Ok I know that if the network is too large, you do not want to create these files,the host and LMhost correct? Instead you would have DNS to resolve the host name to a ip number or have WINS to resolve the netbios into a ip number correct? Now I have this simple three computer, peer to peer network. It has windows 2000 pro and xp pro on these computers. I have static ip numbers assigned to them. With no hosts file or lmhost files on them. No DNS server or WINS server. How does the computer resolve ip numbers or netbios names? Does Netbios over tcp/ip has something to do with that. If so could someone explain this. Thankyou List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
