[linux-cifs-client] CIFS mount works when I specify IP address, butnotwhen I only specify hostname

[BJ Quinn]

So what command do you want me to try now?  Something like this?

mount -t cifs //mycomputer.myworkgroup/sharename /path/to/mount/fs -o
user=username,password=password

Because the following command

mount -t cifs //ipaddress/sharename /path/to/mount/fs -o
user=username,password=password

DOES work, but that doesn't do me any good.

I used to go to high school way back when with a guy named Steve French
here in Arlington, right between Dallas and Fort Worth.  He was into
computers and stuff back then, I'd wondered if it might have been you.

-BJ

>> The command I am running is
>
> The command looks fine, if the fully qualified name e.g. //host.tcpdomain
> fails I would be even more intrigued since that would imply a multihomed
> target that was resolved via dns but failed to open ports 445 or 139
>