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I have what I think is called an IP alias, which is used to access a Windows file server from a Unix server. The path on Unix looks something like:
/folder/file.txt
which is somehow resolved as:
\\server\folder\file.txt
This is used within an ftp command from a SAS program running on Unix. I know very little about Unix, but I believe the alias is configured on Unix itself (not by the SAS server). As a normal (non-root) user, is there a way of looking up this alias and seeing the IP address it refers to? Or even better, a list of aliases and their IP addresses?
Perhaps I'm using the wrong terminology? My Google searches have turned up command aliases, but otherwise I've found very little helpful information.
2Questions about Unix and Linux are equally on topic here and should not be migrated away. However, if you don't get an answer within, say a few days, feel free to have it migrated there by flagging again. Cheers – slhck – 2013-03-06T22:07:31.960
1@slhck - Thanks. Didn't want to open a second, identical question on another site. The suggestion above is reasonable. – JDB still remembers Monica – 2013-03-06T22:14:13.733
Now reposted on [unix.se]: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/76130/resolving-an-alias-to-a-remote-server
– Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' – 2013-05-17T22:41:18.843