Thanks. Let me clarify. I "telnet brutus". The resolution is done on the
basis of something I edited on SCO. Also, it definitely has nothing to do
with the hosts file on the Windows machines.

David

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"Jean-Pierre Radley" <jpr@jpr.com> wrote in message
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> David typed (on Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:29:30AM +0000):
> | A few years ago I did something useful and I now find that I've
completely
> | forgotten what I did.
> |
> | One of my clients has a LAN with a few Windows machines (NO servers) and
an
> | SCO Unix machine (Release 5). The SCO box is not running any DNS
service.
> | What I had done is assigned the SCO box a name so that when a Windows
user
> | telnets to the SCO machine the name is somehow resolved. I seem to
recall
> | that I edited some text file on the SCO machine but I cannot remember
where.
> |
>
> OK, I'm on a Windows machine, and I telnet to xxx.aaa.yyy.zzz. What
> needs to be "resolved"?
>
>
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> JP