> Think that smbclient is using other methods for netbios name resolving, > maybe you can try //matsa.full.dns.name or //ip.address
Wow, this seems unfortunate that mount.cifs does not honour smb.conf. At any rate, I cannot use what you are suggesting because the IP addresses are DHCP-assigned and the Linksys router that does the DHCP does not do DNS; it supplies an external DNS server, which of course won't work.
So, given that I don't want to go through the process of giving static IPs and editing fstab or auto.misc every time a new laptop is temporarily added to the network, is there a way to have mount.cifs use BCAST as a way of resolving names?
Furthermore, this was NOT a problem on the older Linux box that I am trying to replace (it has redhat 7 and some older version of samba). What can I do to get at least the same level of functionality as the old one had?
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