LMHOSTS

The LMHOSTS (LAN Manager Hosts) file is used to enable domain name resolution when other methods, e.g. WINS, fail.

The file, if it exists, is read as the LMHOSTS setting file. A sample file is provided during Windows installation. The sample file contains documentation for manually configuring the file.

File Locations

Windows Millennium Edition

The file located at %windir%lmhosts, and a sample file is located at %windir%lmhosts.sam. The %windir% is an environmental variable which can be output from a command prompt using "echo %windir%" (without the quotation marks). The default value of %windir% in Windows ME is "C:Windows" (without the quotation marks).

Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Vista and Windows Server 2003

The file is located at C:WINDOWSsystem32driversetc, and a sample file is located at C:WINDOWSsystem32driversetclmhosts.sam. If a different install directory was used for the Windows files, the file can be located with the path %systemroot%system32driversetc.

Default contents

# # #PRE # #DOM: # #INCLUDE # #BEGIN_ALTERNATE # #END_ALTERNATE #