On 30 Apr 1998, Jake Colman wrote:

> 1) Why would smbmount only find the win95 server is the win95 machine name ws
>    in the linux box's hosts file?  I though that the win95 machine name is
>    broadcast in some way sich that SMB protocol would allow it to be found.

In short, no.  The Linux system must already know the Win95 system's name
(either through /etc/hosts, NIS, or DNS) or else you will have to use IP
addresses.


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