mount problems

[Tony Crouch]

Hi, 
I have a curious problem I encounter when trying to use the mount
command to view shares on my girlfriend's Windows XP machine.

I am ping her machine via both DNS (which is statically set
in /etc/hosts) and by IP address.

But ...

I can only mount shares via her IP address, not by her DNS name.

Please find the terminal output below. Any assistance / suggestions
anyone could provide would be great. Should this be filed with bugzilla?

> [root at tony-wired pdab100]# mount //amber-wireless/documents /amber-comp
> Password:
> mount error 5 = Input/output error
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
> [root at tony-wired pdab100]# mount //192.168.1.20/documents /amber-comp
> Password:
> [root at tony-wired pdab100]# cat /etc/hosts
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain           localhost
> 192.168.1.10    tony-wireless.localnetwork.com  tony-wireless
> 192.168.1.11    tony-wired.localnetwork.com             tony-wired
> 192.168.1.20    amber-wireless.localnetwork.com amber-wireless
> 192.168.1.21    amber-wired.localnetwork.com    amber-wired
> 192.168.1.1     netcomm-router.localnetwork.com netcomm-router
> 192.168.1.2     netgear-router.localnetwork.com netgear-router
> [root at tony-wired pdab100]# ping amber-wireless
> PING amber-wireless.localnetwork.com (192.168.1.20) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from amber-wireless.localnetwork.com (192.168.1.20): icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=1.74 ms
> 
> --- amber-wireless.localnetwork.com ping statistics ---
> 2 packets transmitted, 1 received, 50% packet loss, time 999ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.746/1.746/1.746/0.000 ms


Cheers, 
Tony Crouch
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