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Pinging RAS Server

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by faiyaz.shah

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I have a WINNT ras server on my network and have remote Win98 clients dialing in. The MS Exchange server is also on the RAS server. The problem is that I can ping the ras server using the IP address, but not using it's netbios name. I can ping all other servers using ther netbios name when dialed in except the server I am dialed into. This causes the remote mail users problem in resolving the MS exchange server name. I have used both LMhosts and hosts files but to no avail unless I am using an incorrect format for these files.

Need help Seriously...

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by michael.goff

For the LMHosts and Hosts files look at the .SAM files that are in the
\windows folder for examples on how these files should be formatted. What
are we using for name resolution on the network, i.e. WINS, DNS,
broadcasts, etc.?

by faiyaz.shah

Thanks for the info. There was apparently some funny character enbedded in the lmhosts file I created.Fortunately I created onother onse on a different PC and It worked. Cheers

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