Using host file to find where users are is a bad idea.
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 211.27.180.104]
on October 05, 2007 12:00 AM
smbstatus is more trustable.
/etc/hosts is better replaced with a machine lookup. nslookup followed by a lookup on who is using that machine. Since using a host file is completely useless in a dhcp network. I even have a file that does like this for nfs shares. Also for smb shares I end up just using smbstatus reason machines running thin clients. So there might be more than one user on them. Ie 1 in 200 users is not a good place to be looking.
Very big mistake thinking that only one user would be using the machine.
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Using host file to find where users are is a bad idea.
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 211.27.180.104] on October 05, 2007 12:00 AM/etc/hosts is better replaced with a machine lookup. nslookup followed by a lookup on who is using that machine. Since using a host file is completely useless in a dhcp network. I even have a file that does like this for nfs shares. Also for smb shares I end up just using smbstatus reason machines running thin clients. So there might be more than one user on them. Ie 1 in 200 users is not a good place to be looking.
Very big mistake thinking that only one user would be using the machine.
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