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Date:	Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:37:15 +0200
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From:	"Schwarz, Konrad" <konrad DOT schwarz AT siemens DOT com>
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> >> By the way, any idea why //localhost/C$ doesn't work?

> > do you have
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost
> > in your hosts file ?

Yes, localhost is in %SystemRoot%\System32\etc\drivers\hosts.
 
>   No, I don't think that's it.  This is netbios name 
> resolution and DNS doesn't come into it; it's resolved by 
> broadcasting a udp datagram with the desired netbios name and 
> seeing if anyone in the local network jumps up and claims it. 
>  It would be bad if every machine on the network all claimed 
> to be 'localhost' at the same time!

I think you're right:

$ ls //localhost/C$
ls: //localhost/C$: Given log. name not unique
$ nslookup localhost
Server:  mail2.siemens.de
Address:  139.25.208.11

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    localhost.ww002.siemens.net
Address:  127.0.0.1

$

which is weird, I shouldn't have thought that nslookup return a positive
answer at all, and especially not a fully-qualified name.

Regards,

Konrad Schwarz

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