A. Its possible to configure a machine to map to a FTP server as a
drive (for instance the Microsoft site) providing the machine runs both NetBEUI
and TCP/IP. Perform the following:
- Perform a NSLOOKUP for the FTP site, e.g.
nslookup
ftp.microsoft.com
make a note of the IP address
- Edit the LMHOSTS file (in %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc)
- Add line
<ip address> MicrosoftFTP #PRE
e.g. 207.46.133.140 MicrosoftFTP #PRE
- Save the file
- Open a CMD.EXE session. Enter command:
nbtstat -R
This purges and reloads the name table cache
- Type command:
net view <a href="file://MicrosoftFTP">\\MicrosoftFTP</a>
You should see information on the site
- Now map a drive (to share data)
net use * <a href="file://MicrosoftFTP/data">\\MicrosoftFTP\data</a> /user:anonymous
- All done. It will pass a drive letter for the connection