Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jun 1999 17:11:38 +0100 (MET) | From | DAVID BALAZIC <> | Subject | Re: ppp not forwarding broadcast packets? |
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Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote :
> > I get your point. Still, it's inconvenient when you don't have an > > ethernet card for your laptop and you want to SMB-mount that share full of > > MP3s to load up before you hit the road. > > That is why Windows 9x has LMHOSTS, and other facilities that solve this. > Just typing in the IP of the host might even work if they've been clueful
Typing in the FQDN works too. I mounted that way \\sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk\public I actually used the name \\sn.doc.ic.ac.uk\public , because of some stupid name-length limit in Win95 , but that may be fixed by now.
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