> > I get your point. Still, it's inconvenient when you don't have an
> > ethernet card for your laptop and you want to SMB-mount that share full of
> > MP3s to load up before you hit the road.
>
> That is why Windows 9x has LMHOSTS, and other facilities that solve this.
> Just typing in the IP of the host might even work if they've been clueful
Typing in the FQDN works too. I mounted that way \\sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk\public
I actually used the name \\sn.doc.ic.ac.uk\public , because of some stupid
name-length limit in Win95 , but that may be fixed by now.
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