thanks Kevin, 
but I've already done that. it seems (and I'm not a windows person or a sys Admin so if I got this wrong someone please correct me). that they are using netbios to do the name resolution. I *do* have a DNS server set up but it doesn't seem to get me anything. 

Carl Parrish

> 
> From: "Kevin Brown" <kevin_brown@qwest.net>
> Date: 2002/05/01 Wed PM 08:04:53 EDT
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Name resolution in a Windows enviornment
> 
> You have to add your DNS servers to /etc/resolv.conf to resolve a domain name to
> an IP address.
> 
> > Okay I'm the only Linux box in a windows office. If I can't get it talking to the network soon I'm afraid their going to make me work on an NT box. HELP. Okay first I do have samba up and running. I can do nmblookup on all of the computers on the net and can smbclient into any share. What I can't do is ping *any* box either on the network or on the internet by name. (IP address works). So I'm assuming that for whatever reason I'm not connecting to the WINS server (only I must be right or else samba wouldn't work). So I'm thinking something must have to be added to /etc/host.conf . Right now I have "order host,bin" I tried sliping wins in there but that didn't go over so well.
> > 
> > On a related issue I'm trying to create a mount to a share since I can smbclient into it I'm assuming that this *has* to be possible I tried using smbmnt but I think I've got the syntax screwed up (yes I've read the man but still....). The are really open to going completly to Linux but over the last three days I haven't been able to impress. If anyone has any ideas I'd be eternally greatful.
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