[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#311709: #311709: not a bug, imho

[Christian Perrier]

> > - the name resolution for mount.cifs is the same than the kernel's one
> 
> Mmm, I don't think that's true.  I don't think the kernel does any name
> resolution at all, I believe mount.cifs is doing name resolution via libc
> before passing the request to the kernel.

Sure. My thoughts were confused (and still are) about who is
responsible for the name resolution but of course this is libc.

> 
> > - finally, the error message for a non existing server is:
> > root at mykerinos:/var/tmp/samba-test> mount -t cifs \\\\foo\\bar /mnt
> > mount error: could not find target server. TCP name foo/bar not found
> > No ip address specified and hostname not found
> 
> > ...which I find pretty informative.
> 
> Well, I think the submitter has a point regarding the term "TCP name".  I
> don't know what a TCP name is, do you?


Hmmm, right. That could be improved somehow.

"Network name" (vague enough)?


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