Re: [opensuse] Again: smb:// works, mount -t cifs not (solved (partly))

On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 14:43 +0200, drek wrote:
G T Smith wrote:
drek wrote:
G T Smith wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
<snip>
Is this home network or corporate?
Is gerver a Windows machine (and if so which Windows version) or a Samba
box?
Are you in charge of it?
It's a server in our student flat . I have no physical access to it.
It's running linux.
If the answer to the last question is no, I would suggest using dig (or
possibly ping) but if this a workgroup based setup the machine/server
name could have absolutely no relationship to the IP based hostname.
Simplest thing is to try ....

ping gerver
>ping gerver
ping: unknown host gerver
>ping //gerver
ping: unknown host //gerver
and see what you have, or ask whoever is in charge of the machine.
If the answer is yes then go to the machine and check the current
network settings.
I asked around and found the ip address. mount -t cifs
//172.20.01.100/film /mnt/gerver/film/ now works. Strange that in 10.3 I
could use it's name instead of it's IP.

With CIFS? On 10.3 I always have to use the IP address. Or put it
in /etc/hosts myself. Or hope that it is resolved via DNS. Any windows
name lookup is not done by CIFS. Only if you used smbfs you could use a
name not resolved via /etc/hosts or DNS, as smbfs seems to consult other
resources on the network to resolve a machine name. IMO, it sounds like
11.0 and 10.3 are acting the same.

Also, as ping is not working, either you do not have your DNS client on
the 11.0 set up, or the Linux server is not telling. Is the Linux server
also the DNS that should resolve the name?

Thanks for your help!

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