Talk:LMHOSTS

Links to MS documentation
All the links to Microsoft's documentation are dead due to technet migration — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.189.75.106 (talk) 03:43, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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Relation to hosts file?
What is the relation between the lmhosts file and the hosts file which are found in the same directory on windows machines?
 * I think the hosts file is deprecated, as adding an entry to it works as well as adding an entry to lmhost. Also, as far as I believe, lmhost doesn't exist on Windows 9x systems, furthering the idea that the hosts file is deprecated.
 * Dustin 20:36, 26 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Turns out I am wrong...hosts is for resolving dns while lmhosts is only for resolving hostnames over lan..
 * Dustin 20:42, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Path to files
I think you should say %windir%, rather than c:\windows\, since c:\windows\ isn't the windows directory on every machine.