[Bug 270395] Re: cannot resolve windows host name

[Joel Goguen]

This is because using 'ping <host>' attempts to look up a host using
DNS.  Using 'smb://<host>/' uses lmhosts.  If you were to go to Windows
and type 'ping <host>' it would fail the same way.

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cannot resolve windows host name
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270395
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