On Jan 29, 2008 6:06 PM, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Two possible workarounds for using netbios name resolution with mount.cifs: > > - install the winbind package, and enable "wins" for hosts in > /etc/nsswitch.conf (due to your ISP's broken DNS servers, I suppose you'd > need to list wins before dns in the list, which is rather unfortunate...)
That worked perfectly! Thanks. Is it perhaps worth a file in /usr/share/bug, since for people who've been using smbfs this appears as a regression? -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com http://36pints.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
