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by milky

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When I ping PCs on the network with -a to resolve IP address to hostname certain computers come back with a replay but no hostname. We use static IPs with no DNS or WINS server. I was wondering what could be the possible reason for this?
Also, are the IP and Hostnames stored on NT in lmhosts?
I tried looking for this file but I only get a sample file.

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by nicko

Check out MS Article ID: Q172218. This will explain hostname of it and follows onto Netbios name resolution.

Note that lmhosts is for netbios name resolution and hosts is used for host name resolution.

Using DHCP with wins and dns servers would be an easy solution.

Article ID: Q140473 explains netbios name resolution node types and Article ID: Q167640 shows how you could change the node type without using dhcp.

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