Microsoft KB Archive/280839

= NBTSTAT -c Command Output Contains a Period in the Name Column =

Article ID: 280839

Article Last Modified on 10/31/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q280839



SUMMARY
When you run the NBTSTAT -c command and the output looks similar to the following output, the the LMHOSTS file may have been incorrectly modified:

                 NetBIOS Remote Cache Name Table

Name             Type       Host Address    Life [sec] PDCNAME       <03>  UNIQUE          10.0.0.1            -1 PDCNAME       <00>  UNIQUE          10.0.0.1            -1 PDCNAME       <20>  UNIQUE          10.0.0.1            -1 DOMAINNAME    <1C>  GROUP           10.0.0.1            -1 DOMAINNAME   .<03>  UNIQUE          10.0.0.1            -1 DOMAINNAME   .<00>  UNIQUE          10.0.0.1            -1 DOMAINNAME   .<20>  UNIQUE          10.0.0.1            -1

^                 |    (Period) -|



MORE INFORMATION
Note that the output has the period in the Name column because of the following entry in the LMHOSTS file:

10.0.0.1       &quot;Domainname    \0x1b&quot;   #PRE <--- 19 chars --->

The following entry is the correct LMHOSTS entry:

10.0.0.1       &quot;Domainname     \0x1b&quot;  #PRE <--- 20 chars  --->

Format of the entry:

 &quot;DOMAINNAME \0x1b&quot; #PRE

For additional information, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

163409 NetBIOS Suffixes (16th Character of the NetBIOS Name)

180094 How to Write an LMHOSTS File for Domain Validation and Other Name Resolution Issues

Additional query words: dot 1131

Keywords: kbenv kbinfo KB280839

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