accessing a share by its dns-alias name

I am having problems accessing a windows share by its dns alias name (
instead of the host name) when I logon to the host.

ie: 1. "box1" is the hostname of the machine
2. "redhot" is its dns alias name.
3. "cold" is a share I defined in

when I access it as \\box1\cold , it works
when I access it as \\redhot\cold, it does not work.

please help

P.S:

Even, \\redhot\cold, did not work to start with. But I made some
modifications as per the Microsoft article,
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=281308 , then It worked.

using \\ (aka UNC path) is a NetBIOS feature and is resolving the netBIOS
name of th computer. If you don't have a WINS server, then it is resolved by
broadcast. If you do have a WINS server, you could make a static entry for
the alias.

<sundar23.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I am having problems accessing a windows share by its dns alias name (
> instead of the host name) when I logon to the host.
>
> ie: 1. "box1" is the hostname of the machine
> 2. "redhot" is its dns alias name.
> 3. "cold" is a share I defined in
>
> when I access it as \\box1\cold , it works
> when I access it as \\redhot\cold, it does not work.
>
> please help
>
> P.S:
>
> Even, \\redhot\cold, did not work to start with. But I made some
> modifications as per the Microsoft article,
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=281308 , then It worked.
>