I have a laptop running Vista SP1 and a desktop running XP SP3. Both are connected to a router. Laptop has a dhcp address (192.168.1.112), and the desktop has a static address (192.168.1.42). The ...

If you have ever used a HOSTS file on your Windows computer, you might have seen the LMHOSTS file in the same directory where the HOSTS file is located. The HOSTS file is used to map IP host names to ...

We’ve been discussing Samba, the open source freeware implementation of the Server Message Block protocol, and last week we established a NetBIOS session between a client and a Samba server. Now we ...