Hi, I have a curious problem I encounter when trying to use the mount command to view shares on my girlfriend's Windows XP machine. I am ping her machine via both DNS (which is statically set in /etc/hosts) and by IP address. But ... I can only mount shares via her IP address, not by her DNS name. Please find the terminal output below. Any assistance / suggestions anyone could provide would be great. Should this be filed with bugzilla? > [root@tony-wired pdab100]# mount //amber-wireless/documents /amber-comp > Password: > mount error 5 = Input/output error > Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) > [root@tony-wired pdab100]# mount //192.168.1.20/documents /amber-comp > Password: > [root@tony-wired pdab100]# cat /etc/hosts > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > 192.168.1.10 tony-wireless.localnetwork.com tony-wireless > 192.168.1.11 tony-wired.localnetwork.com tony-wired > 192.168.1.20 amber-wireless.localnetwork.com amber-wireless > 192.168.1.21 amber-wired.localnetwork.com amber-wired > 192.168.1.1 netcomm-router.localnetwork.com netcomm-router > 192.168.1.2 netgear-router.localnetwork.com netgear-router > [root@tony-wired pdab100]# ping amber-wireless > PING amber-wireless.localnetwork.com (192.168.1.20) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from amber-wireless.localnetwork.com (192.168.1.20): icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=1.74 ms > > --- amber-wireless.localnetwork.com ping statistics --- > 2 packets transmitted, 1 received, 50% packet loss, time 999ms > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.746/1.746/1.746/0.000 ms Cheers, Tony Crouch -- GPG Key fingerprint = EEB2 6364 791C 3BE2 A008 22D0 C469 950C 7C5A EE77
