An alias (defined as a hosts entry) for a fileserver works only when it is a win2008-box, why?

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Published on 2010-03-28T15:53:14Z Indexed on 2010/03/28 21:13 UTC
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On a Terminalserver (win2008), we like to have an alias for the real fileservername and therefor we put a line in hosts like:

  • 192.168.0.10 BigFiler

This only works fine for Fileserver under windows 2008 not for win2003-servers, why?

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An alias (defined as a hosts entry) for a fileserver works only when it is a win2008-box, why?

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Published on 2010-03-28T15:53:14Z Indexed on 2010/03/28 16:03 UTC
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On a Terminalserver (win2008), we like to have an alias for the real fileservername and therefor we put a line in hosts like:

  • 192.168.0.10 BigFiler

This only works fine for Fileserver under windows 2008 not for win2003-servers, why?

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