From: Robert Comer on
I just leave it as is and haven't had a problem.

I'll do a little research on it now that you've piqued my interest in it again...

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Karl E. Peterson wrote:
> Robert Comer wrote :
>> I get that VPCbus thing too, never figured out why.
>
> Weird, huh? So just disable the sucker and move on?
>
From: Karl E. Peterson on
Robert Comer expressed precisely :
> > He shoots; he scores! Damn, I don't believe I missed that.
>
> I usually get caught by that one too since they changed the default to NAT.
> <g>
>
> > Well, with one little oddity. I can resolve the ip address for other
> > machines on the network, it seems. All but one. The host. What's up
> > with that?
>
> There is some weirdness between the host and guest, performance problems, and
> that might be what's getting in the way. You might be able to just use the
> IP Address, or put it in the lmhosts file.

Any reason in particular for using lmhosts rather than hosts?

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From: Robert Comer on
lmhosts works better for netbios.

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Karl E. Peterson wrote:
> Robert Comer expressed precisely :
>> > He shoots; he scores! Damn, I don't believe I missed that.
>>
>> I usually get caught by that one too since they changed the default to
>> NAT. <g>
>>
>> > Well, with one little oddity. I can resolve the ip address for other
>> > machines on the network, it seems. All but one. The host. What's up
>> > with that?
>>
>> There is some weirdness between the host and guest, performance
>> problems, and that might be what's getting in the way. You might be
>> able to just use the IP Address, or put it in the lmhosts file.
>
> Any reason in particular for using lmhosts rather than hosts?
>
From: Karl E. Peterson on
Robert Comer was thinking very hard :
>> Any reason in particular for using lmhosts rather than hosts?
>
> lmhosts works better for netbios.

Huh. I'll have to play with that. Thanks...

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