Is this okay to do? On a particular computer, for some reason it would not find a networked computer by computer name, but could see it no problem by ip address. So I made a listing in the hosts file to translate the name to the ip address and all worked.
But here's the question, does WinXP think the networked computer is within a local network or out on the internet? I know if you connect directly by ip address, XP sticks those shared drives under whatever "internet zone" it has, and puts high restrictions on what you can excecute. I ran into this before trying to open Access database files.
Where I was they didn't have MS Access, so I couldn't test it out, so I'm asking if anyone else knows what XP would do when the computer name is translated to an ip address in the hosts file.
But here's the question, does WinXP think the networked computer is within a local network or out on the internet? I know if you connect directly by ip address, XP sticks those shared drives under whatever "internet zone" it has, and puts high restrictions on what you can excecute. I ran into this before trying to open Access database files.
Where I was they didn't have MS Access, so I couldn't test it out, so I'm asking if anyone else knows what XP would do when the computer name is translated to an ip address in the hosts file.
