Product

Operating system

Machines affected

Any device running the operating system listed above

Symptoms

After copying a hosts file from a Windows 2000 server to a Windows 2003 server, the hosts file cannot be accessed.

Cause

Copying the hosts file from another workstation. Although this may have worked in earlier versions of Windows, it does not work for Windows 2003. The Users and Power Users will be missing from the file permissions.

Solution

Use Microsoft^® Notepad to create a new hosts file. Save it as a .txt file and rename it without the extension.

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