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SubjectRe: ppp not forwarding broadcast packets?
Hi David.

>>> I get your point. Still, it's inconvenient when you don't have
>>> an ethernet card for your laptop and you want to SMB-mount that
>>> share full of MP3s to load up before you hit the road.

>> That is why Windows 9x has LMHOSTS, and other facilities that
>> solve this. Just typing in the IP of the host might even work if
>> they've been clueful

> Typing in the FQDN works too. I mounted that way
> \\sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk\public I actually used the name
> \\sn.doc.ic.ac.uk\public , because of some stupid name-length
> limit in Win95 , but that may be fixed by now.

SunSITE fixed that a while back, and I've been using the fix for
months...

sunsite.uk.org:/public

Best wishes from Riley.

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