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

[Michael Marsh]

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?

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