cifs WinXP problem

[Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:47:30 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:16:29 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 
> [...]
>> Dumb question - is abdc30 in /etc/host, /etc/samba/lmhosts, or
>> resolvable in some other way?
>> 
>> Mikkel
> [...]
> 
> It is defined in /etc/hosts .
> 
> Mike.

Googing around, I saw a suggestion to try putting the actual
ip address in place of abcd10 .  It solved the problem.  This is
most peculiar.  It suggests /etc/hosts is not read.  However,
for the Win2k box, abcd30, hosts is read???  There is more to
this than meets the eye.  But it is working.

Mike.