David typed (on Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:29:24AM +0000):
| "Jean-Pierre Radley" <jpr@jpr.com> wrote in message
| news:20050818005007.GC13297@jpradley.jpr.com...
| > 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"?
|
| 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.

You're on a Windows machine, and you telnet to brutus (the SCO machine?)
Windows should, not knowing where brutus is, find a file on brutus to
tell it where brutus is???

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JP