[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#462803: mount.cifs not respecting name resolve order

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Michael,

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 06:44:32PM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2008 6:06 PM, Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> wrote:
> > Two possible workarounds for using netbios name resolution with mount.cifs:

> > - install the winbind package, and enable "wins" for hosts in
> >   /etc/nsswitch.conf (due to your ISP's broken DNS servers, I suppose you'd
> >   need to list wins before dns in the list, which is rather unfortunate...)

> That worked perfectly!  Thanks.  Is it perhaps worth a file in
> /usr/share/bug, since for people who've been using smbfs this appears
> as a regression?

You're welcome to propose a patch for this.  I'm personally not familiar
with the /usr/share/bug interfaces, so I'm afraid this isn't likely to
happen if it depends on me learning them.

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