Re: Samba -- netbios

[Remco van de Meent <remco@oloon.student.utwente.nl>]

On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, Paul Miller 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?

Well, a `man smbmount' would give you enough information:

          Currently smbmount uses gethostbyname() to find the  IP
          number  of the desired host. It is thus not really com¡
          patible with Lan Manager conventions, where the netbios
          name  of  the server is not necessarily the same as the
          hostname. In environments which enforce a netbios  name
          that's  different  than the hostname, you should use -s
          and -c to simulate appropriate behaviour.

It just isn't possible with this version of smbmount.


Remco.

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