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Chapter 11 Setting up a Simple Network
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Profile XP System Guide 23 July 2004
Manually Edit the
hosts
file on each Profile XP
NOTE: Perform this step if you disabled Autohost file administration earlier.
The hosts file is used by the video network to determine the Ethernet and Fibre Channel
IP address of devices on the network when only a the device name is given. The steps
that follow describe how to edit the hosts file located at
c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. If you include the names and addresses of all the
devices on the network, then you can copy the same file onto all the other Profile XP
systems instead of editing the hosts file on each Profile XP system.
NOTE: An alternative to manually editing the hosts file is to use the Autohosts file
administration feature discussed earlier.
To edit the hosts file manually:
1. Open the following file using Notepad or some other text editing application.
c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
2. The text format is simple. First type the Ethernet IP address, then use the TAB key
or Space bar to insert a few spaces. Now type the machine name, such as
Profile1
.
On the next line, type the IP address of the Fibre Channel interface of the same
Profile XP followed by the machine name again, only this time, add the characters
_fc0
.
Here is an example:
192.168.99.1 Profile1
192.168.100.1 Profile1_fc0
192.168.99.2 Profile2
192.168.100.2 Profile2_fc0