[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#456992: smbfs: mount.cifs fails with "mount error: could not find target server. TCP name ... not found"

[Julian Gilbey]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:23:30AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> To mount such shares without DNS support, you have three options:
> 
> - add your own entry in /etc/hosts
> - add nss_wins from the winbind package to your nsswitch.conf
> - use the ip= option to mount.cifs

I used the second solution, and it worked fine.  Many thanks!

   Julian