[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#601501: cifs-utils: hostname not found

[Alexandros Prekates]

Package: cifs-utils
Version: 2:4.5-2
Severity: normal


I try to mount a share with:

sudo mount.cifs //ALEXDESKTOP/myexport  /mnt/network/ -o user=alex,password=alex,rw -vvv
mount error: could not resolve address for ALEXDESKTOP: No address associated with hostname
No ip address specified and hostname not found.

But nmblookup ALEXDESKTOP gives the ip right , and  
smbclient //ALEXDESKTOP/myexport -U alex 
also works.

What could be wrong? 

tail -f /var/log/samba/log.smbd|log.nmbd   shows no error


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=el_GR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=el_GR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cifs-utils depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.11.1-3       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcap2                   1:2.17-2       support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libkeyutils1              1.4-1          Linux Key Management Utilities (li
ii  libkrb5-3                 1.8.1+dfsg-5   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libtalloc2                2.0.1-1        hierarchical pool based memory all
ii  samba-common              2:3.5.6~dfsg-1 common files used by both the Samb

cifs-utils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cifs-utils suggests:
ii  smbclient                 2:3.5.6~dfsg-1 command-line SMB/CIFS clients for 

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