Can't access network share with name defined in hosts file

Posted by Einar Egilsson on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Einar Egilsson
Published on 2010-02-01T08:39:28Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 0:32 UTC
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I have a network share on a machine that I can only reach by IP address. I then defined an alias for the IP in my hosts file so I could use that instead of the IP but then I can't log on to the share, I just get the logon prompt again and again. So basically this:

\\172.17.0.48\SomeShare

works but this

\\myalias\SomeShare

doesn't. myalias is defined in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts as

172.17.0.48 myalias

And I can use the alias for remote desktop without problems.

Can anyone tell me why this doesn't work for fileshares?

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