Using Samba 3.2.3 under Ubuntu 8.10 (and Samba 3.0.28a under Ubuntu 8.04 Sever).
I set up file shares on the Linux boxes and also want to access Windows shares from the Linux boxes. Interactive access works fine, but mounting the Windows shares on Linux (an essential part of my backup strategy) doesn't. The problem seems to be that, in spite of taking 'host' out of 'name resolve order', CIFS insists on using DNS. So, while 'smbtree' shows all the shares, 'smbmount' is unable to find them by name to mount them. I can mount them by IP address, or by adding entries into the /etc/hosts file. Unfortunately, since the addresses are assigned by the router using DHCP, they're subject to change.