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Date:  Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:37:46 -0600
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From:  "Phil Parker" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [OS2Wireless] EASY way to do a Local message send...?


On 12/12/2003 at 01:33 PM, "Carl Gehr" <Carl.Gehr@attglobal.net> wrote: >On
Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:16:53 -0600, Sam Lewis wrote:

>>>
>>One is probably your TCP/IP Host name and the other is the Netbios 
>>name.  But I am just guessing.
>>But if it works who cares :)

>I would like to get the names consistent, if possible.

>Looking further on the other system, it appears that the name that is used
>is the "LAN User Name" to logon to the LAN.  It seems to just automatically
>happen, so I don't know what is doing it or how it is happening.  So,
>obviously, I don't know where/how to change it.

For network messaging, the relevant names are the NetBIOS/NetBEUI names of
the machines and the users. The name you enter to logon to the LAN is a
user. The machine itself has a separate name. 

The TCP/IP name is machine.domain1.comain2.top. On most setups, you can 

set hostname=machinename

in config.sys and your ISP will automatically fill in the rest of the domain
stuff when relevant.

So about the only way to get as close to consistent as is possible is to set
the NetBIOS/NetBEUI machine name as the TCP/IP hostname in config.sys. You
might want to go the whole nine yards and

SET HOSTNAME=machinename
SET USE_HOSTS_FIRST=1
SET USER=username

where username is your NetBIOS/NetBEUI user name. 

An alternative is to set machinename as a nickname for your TCP/IP machine
name in your HOSTS file (usually in MPTN\ETC, actually in %ETC%), as in

127.0.0.1  localhost  lo Warp3     #comment

format: 
IP number  fully qualified dotted domain name  nickname(s)  #comment(if any)

"localhost" is a reserved name for 127.0.0.1; normally, it'd look more like
the one in the URL below (www.math.wichita.edu). This example has two
nicknames for localhost (the default loopback interface): "lo" and "Warp3".
You may have as many as you wish, subject to a 255 char line length limit.
You may omit the second field (localhost in the example), in which case the
next thing found on the line is a nickname. You may not omit the IP number.

There are probably more rules, but those are the ones I had to learn to get
my setup working.

-- 
    Phil Parker
--------------------------------------------
URL http://www.math.wichita.edu/~parker/
Random quote:
  How many hardware engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
  None: "We'll fix it in software."
  How many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
  None: "We'll document it in the manual."
  How many tech writers does it take to change a lightbulb?
  None: "The user can work it out."


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