Installation guide
StorageWorks Secure Path for Windows NT
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C.2 Network Considerations
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Client names up to 15 letters without a dot (".") can
be resolved by NetBIOS
broadcast resolution
as long as the client and agent nodes are configured on the same
subnet. If the client and agent are located on different subnets then you must use
either the LMHOSTs file, HOSTs file, WINS
,
or DNS to resolve the address.
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If you use the LMHOSTs file make sure that the "Enable LMHOSTs Lookup" box is
checked in the TCP/IP protocol properties of the client system. On the client system
you must enter the NETBIOS name and the IP address of the agent you wish to
connect with in the LMHOST file and save it. Click the "Import LMHOSTS" button
to specify the location of the LMHOST file. The LMHOSTs and HOSTs files are
normally located in the \system32\drivers\etc subdirectory. Finally, from a command
prompt issue the "NBTSTAT -R" command to purge and reload the remote name
table.
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Client names that exceed 15 letters or with a dot require an entry for that name in the
HOSTS file or resolution by a DNS server. It is also possible to have DNS resolve
NetBIOS names as long as the DNS server is updated with the appropriate
information. Make sure that you have checked the "Enable DNS for Windows
Resolution" box in the TCP/IP protocol properties of the client system.
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If you are using DNS for host name-to-IP resolution, then the DNS database on the
DNS server must be updated with the appropriate information.
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For best network connection results, it is recommended that you use Fully Qualified
Domain Names with DNS.
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For production environments
,
where management and security are a concern, it is
recommended that fully qualified names be used with with DNS name resolution.
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For test and evaluation environments it is usually easier to simply add the server’s
name to the client’s HOSTS file and the client’s name to the server’s HOST file.
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Make sure that you can ping the Secure Path host both locally and from a remote host
using the host name, not the IP address.