HP CIFS Server and Terminal Server User Manual

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5.1.2

Terminal Server Hosts File Aliases

The Windows Terminal Server can be configured with a hosts file that is similar in function to the
UNIX/Linux /etc/hosts file. The Terminal Server hosts file can be configured to supply Terminal
Server aliases for a back-end Samba file/print server. The resulting behavior is the initiation of a
discrete TCP/IP connection for each configured alias, which then starts a separate smbd process
on the Samba server associated with the transport connect. The default hosts file location is:

C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS

The format of hosts file configuration entries is similar to /etc/hosts: an IP address followed by a
name. Multiple alias naming strategies are possible. Using the same naming strategy as the
Samba “netbios alisases =” from the example above, a sample hosts file would look like:

127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.1

emonster1

192.168.0.1

emonster2

192.168.0.1

emonster3

192.168.0.1

emonster4

192.168.0.1

emonster5

192.168.0.1

emonster6

This strategy would result in the same access behavior as the Samba netbios aliases method:
the alias must be manually configured, and the user must know the share name
(

\\emonster3\share

) to connect to.

Another naming strategy is to create an alias with the same name as the Terminal Server user
name:

127.0.0.1 localhost

192.168.0.1 buffy
192.168.0.1

spike

192.168.0.1

willow

192.168.0.1

giles

192.168.0.1

cordelia

This strategy would result in the Terminal Server user mapping the drive using their own user
name (

\\buffy\share

) instead of the Samba server NetBIOS name (

\\emonster\share