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Christian Worley <cworley@altatech.com> wrote:
>Is "LMHOSTS" the win95 equivalent to "/etc/hosts"?  Is there
>a resolv.conf for Win95 that says "look at your local hosts
>file first before consulting DNS"?
>

I've had two excellent replies with three ideas:

1) michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca said that "nmbd", which is
supplied with SAMBA on the unix side works as a WINS name
server -- so tell Win95 to use the SAMBA server as a WINS server.

2) simon@demon.net and my brother suggested making a DNS cacheing
server within my LAN -- not the total overhead of a DNS server, with
a lot time-saving local fetches.

3) Simon also showed that the Win95 registry can be modified to
change the host lookup priority:

>Check out the registry key
>HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\MSTCP\ServiceProvider\
>DNSPriority REG_DWORD
>HostsPriority REG_DWORD
>LocalPriority REG_DWORD
>NetBtPriotity REG_DWORD
>
>these numbers are relative priorities as to how the SMB client on
>Windows 95 resolved names. I *think* the lower the number the higher
>priority, or it might be the other way around.

Thanks for your help... my internet connection is runnning smoothly
again.

Chris