> >> 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
