Name resolution in a Windows enviornment

[Kevin Brown]

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.
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> 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.