How to setup hosts file

[nagesh]

I have Win98 and am trying to set up the hosts file so
that a named domain such as www.myhost.com will be mapped
to an IP address such as 192.168.1.110 in my LAN. I tried
updating the hosts.sam file in c:windows folder, but no
luck.

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

In article >, "nagesh"
> wrote:
>I have Win98 and am trying to set up the hosts file so
>that a named domain such as www.myhost.com will be mapped
>to an IP address such as 192.168.1.110 in my LAN. I tried
>updating the hosts.sam file in c:windows folder, but no
>luck.

Edit the "hosts.sam" file, then save it as just "hosts.", without the
".sam" or ".txt".
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