I'd like to add that for a LAN, Windows looks up lmhosts.txt in the Windows directory before it tries DNS lookup to get the IP of the hostname (LAN only?), by putting in the hostnames and IPs into lmhosts.txt, it saves a considerable amount of speed in the network. I tend to really notice the difference when transferring files to a computer with and to one without a lmhosts file.

Theres a file called lmhosts.sam in the Windows directory that is a sample file.

Sunny