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Q96176: ADDNAME2.EXE: A More Flexible ADDNAME Utility

Article: Q96176
Product(s): Microsoft LAN Manager
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Last Modified: 30-JUL-2001

SUMMARY
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The ADDNAME utility that ships with LAN Manager allows you to enter LAN Manager
NetBIOS names into the name cache, along with an IP address. This utility allows
TCP/IP machines to connect to other TCP/IP machines over routers that don't
forward broadcasts.

MORE INFORMATION
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The shipping ADDNAME utility was written specifically for LAN Manager, so it
enforces rules onto the NetBIOS names it will enter into cache. It upshifts all
characters, and pads the name out to 16 bytes with spaces. There are NetBIOS
applications being shipped by other vendors that require the ability to use
lower case names, or to pad the name with a character other than spaces.

To assist in getting these applications to work, Microsoft has developed the
utility ADDNAME2.EXE (which is unsupported). This utility allows:

- Mixed case names

- User-selected pad characters

The syntax for ADDNAME2 is:

  addname
  addname computername ipaddress [/case] [/P0xn]
  addname computername /delete [/case] [/P0xn]
  addname /load [filename] [/case]
  addname /save [filename]

Thus, to add the name "MyremotePC386" padded by <NUL>s, you would type:

  addname2 MyremotePC386 <ipaddr> /case /P0x00

Note that if a cache containing mixed case characters is saved to a file with the
/save option, then you must use the /case option to re-load the file into
cache.

The ADDNAME2 utility was developed by Microsoft to help our customers; it is not
an official part of the LAN Manager product. We will support it on a
commercially reasonable basis.

Additional query words: 2.10 2.10a 2.20 padding

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