In your email to me, Adam Shand, you wrote: > > >The smbmount command can't locate any servers by their name (it works > >with the IP -- also, smbclient does work w/ names). I think this has > >something to do w/ netbios. Anyone know how to get this to work? > > This does work, however the catch is that the netbios name must match the > DNS hostname. So if it's DNS name is 'pinky.domain.net' then the windows > name for the same computer must be 'pinky'.
Not really. This is what the lmhosts file is for. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." - Tom Brokaw ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
