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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.

Any help is tremendously appreciated. Thanks.

David

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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David wrote:
> 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.
>
> Any help is tremendously appreciated. Thanks.
>
> David

David;
Most likely you edited the hosts files on the windows machines.
Regards...Dan.

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"?
>
>
> --
> JP

Dan,

Thanks. I know that this definitely has nothing to do with the hosts files
on the Windows machines.

Could what I'm looking for be somewhere in /etc/sysconf ?

Regards,

David
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"jdanskinner" <JDanSkinner@JDanSkinner.com> wrote in message
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>
> David wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > Any help is tremendously appreciated. Thanks.
> >
> > David
>
> David;
> Most likely you edited the hosts files on the windows machines.
> Regards...Dan.
>

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

David wrote:
> 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
>

No. You are confused.

The windows box resolves "brutus" wherever it has been told to - that
is, wherever its dns points or through lmhosts or a wins server.

The sco box needs to resolve the Windows box too.. which is often done
just by editing /etc/hosts. If the sco can't resolve the windows, your
login will be delayed while it tries. See
http://aplawrence.com/SCOFAQ/FAQ_scotec4telnetslow.html

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David wrote:

> 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
>

Might have been /etc/hosts..?

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David wrote:
> Dan,
>
> Thanks. I know that this definitely has nothing to do with the hosts files
> on the Windows machines.
>
> Could what I'm looking for be somewhere in /etc/sysconf ?
>
> Regards,
>
> David

Without a DNS server or hosts files, the only way I know of that this
could work is if you configured VisionFS or Samba to perform BetBIOS
broadcasts of the SCO server's name and address.

I vaguely recall this was an option in VisionFS. It could also act as a
WINS server which would probably have the same effect.

IME Windows PCs have a habit of collecting name and IP_address info from
NetBIOS over TCP/IP broadcasts.

Jean-Pierre Radley wrote (on Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:46:05PM -0400):
> 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???

Not at all, JP, but, SCO will, depending upon DNS, /etc/hosts, and the
phases of the moon, act either nicely or petulantly towards the telnet
requests.

I was thinking of telnet reverse lookup delay, but, on second thought,
perhaps he has a tcp wrappers issue?

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