When a Windows95/98 or WindowsNT4 system is connected
on the same network-cable as
the domain-server, then the system will know the IP-address
of the domain-server from the
workgroup/domain broadcasts (example: Pc#1 and #2 in the
drawing below)


If your system (example in the above drawing: PC#3,4,5) is
connected to a different
network segment, which is connected via a router to the
server-segment, then your system
will not know the IP-address of the Domain-server, because
broadcast messages are
NOT passed through routers.

But to logon, you need to define the Domain-server:


Your system needs to know on how to "find the way" to the
server and to the Domain-
controller (which could be the same, but could be different
systems).

First, configure your TCP/IP with the proper Gateway/Router
information and verifyusing PING with the IP-address, that you
have a connection to your server.

Then you need a Translation service to convert a name
(like the Domain-server name)to an IP-address. That could
be a DNS-server, if your Domain-server is also configured
as a DNS-server.

For a configuration without a DNS-server, you can define
this name-translation manuallyby defining them in LMHOSTS:
Look on Windows95/98 in your WINDOWS-directory, on NT4 in Windows\system32\drivers\etc
for the file LMHOSTS (if it does not exist, look for the file LMHOSTS.
SAM and make a copy
calling the copy LMHOSTS), then edit LMHOSTS:
I use on purpose the DOS-EDIT in a Command-Windows
("DOS-box"):


scroll to the end of the file, add first the IP-address of the
server and the servername
(example: 192.90.1.1 <tab-key> server-name)
Enter the IP-address of your domain-server, followed by the
Domain-Name:
A domain-name is identified to have as 16.th character
( the NetBIOS Suffix ) a hexadecimal values of 0x1c.
To enter such a name, put the full name in quotation makes,
type first the domain-name,
fill it up with blanks to 15 characters, then add \0x1c.

If you prefer to work with NOTEPAD:

make sure it used a fixed-width font.

	On NT4 I got on some systems this display of NOTEPAD:
	On NT4, select fromthe menu "Edit" to "Set Font"
	then select the fixed-width font "Fixedsys" to change the font for easy alignment of columns.

Unless LMHOSTS, which is immediately ready-for -use after
an update, you will either
have to reboot or run the command: "nbtstat -R" (very important:
CAPITAL R)to make the new values in LMHOSTS active.

To verify that the information is stored properly, you can run
the command: "nbtstat -c".

You should be able to logon to your domain-server via the routers.