title: How to configure user specific hosts file on Windows
body: <p>There is Windows Server 2003 machine which has many users to access. Each of them want to configure their own hosts file to redirect a hostname to certain IP address. (They are virtual machines with same hostname and different IP addresses owned by each user.)</p>
  
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    <p>C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts</p>
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  <p>Also, we cannot simply ask users to use IP address to connect because the hostname is configured and need to be used in an application. Can we have this user specific hosts file configured or any workaround?</p>