Win98 hosts filevn

Fri, 03 Mar 2000 17:13:21 +0000

Thank you, thank you, Tyran. You solved my problem, and apparently saved me
$235 plus long distance charges.

My experience is that it is necessary to remove the ".sam" extension, which
I never knew to do until Tyran clued me in. The DNS "hosts.sam" file will
not work on any of our Win9x/NT systems, but "hosts" does. My Win98 machine
is also Win98 second edition!

I can testify that hours of searching Microsoft documentation and the MSDN
produced nothing that would indicate that the ".sam" extension indicates
"sample", as it does.  What an incredible oversight!

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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 08:03:07 -0700
From: Tyran Ormond <ormondt "at" cvwrf.state.ut.us
<mailto:ormondt "at" cvwrf.state.ut.us> >
Subject: Re: Win98 hosts file (mistakenly was Re: Zoom / Scaling in VNC)

On 06:36 PM 02/29/2000 -0500, it would appear that Eric Goforth wrote:
>That's strange, I tried connecting by entering computername, instead of
>the IP address, in the login screen and it worked.  I hadn't yet removed
>the .sam extension.  I had previously logged in using the IP Address.
>Both times that I logged in it displayed computername on the title bar
>for WinVNC.

Maybe MS wised up and ignores the sam extension altogether.  Four years 
ago, we were working with a hosts.sam file on NT just as described in the 
documentation (it actually said to edit the hosts.sam file) but nothing 
worked.  We called tech support (two hour wait, long distance charge and 
$235 incident charge) just to be told that the .sam extension needed to be 
removed.

Tyran Ormond
LAN Technician/Programmer
ormondt "at" cvwrf.state.ut.us <mailto:ormondt "at" cvwrf.state.ut.us> 

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