Article ID: 280839
Article Last Modified on 10/31/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
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 "Domainname \0x1b" #PRE
<--- 19 chars --->
The following entry is the correct LMHOSTS entry:
10.0.0.1 "Domainname \0x1b" #PRE
<--- 20 chars --->
Format of the entry:
<IP address><tab>"DOMAINNAME \0x1b" <tab> #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
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