If you don't have either DNS or WINS, and you don't wish to use broadcast name resolution, you'll need to provide a table of IP addresses and hosts names, in standard Unix
/etc/hosts format. We recommend against this because maintenance of this file on any dynamic network is troublesome, but we will explain it just the same. The Windows host file should appear in the
\WINDOWS\HOSTS directory of whatever local drive Windows is installed on. A sample follows:
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.236.1 escrime escrime.example.com
192.168.236.2 riposte riposte.example.com
192.168.236.3 wizzin wizzin.example.com
192.168.236.4 touche touche.example.com
192.168.236.5 gurgi gurgi.example.com
192.168.236.6 jessiac jessiac.example.com
192.168.236.7 skyline skyline.example.com
If you wish, you can copy the contents directly from the Samba server's
/etc/hosts. The format is identical. This file will then serve the same purpose as the hosts file on the Unix server. Again,
hosts files on Windows should only be used as a last resort.
