On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 16:58 +1000, Tony Crouch wrote: > 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. See if putting machine names and IP addresses into the "lmhosts" files helps (it's the LAN manager hosts file - LAN manager being the precursor to the filing system using SMB). But I can think of other possible factors: The computers not having a browse master between them (which coordinates what machines are available on a network). Firewalling blocking some of the communication. Your computers configuration is using other things to try and resolve names before it tries the hosts file (see "/etc/nsswitch.comf" and "/etc/host.conf", and their man pages). A local domain name server responds to queries about "localdomain" addresses, but has no answer for the particular addresses that you're using. I can't remember whether machine names can include a hyphen, using SMB, and I think the limit to the length of the name was sixteen characters. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
