I have a network drive (external network) being used as media storage for a media server running on my router. I'm trying to switch the media server to my Centos 6.3 machine so I can take advantage of ffmpeg and more (unrelated).. All I'm wondering here is why my Centos server can't resolve the host name for the drive while my laptop running Ubuntu can on the same network. Ubuntu can ping it by host name and receive a response. Though I know Ubuntu has a GUI and I can click on network in the file system and find it there smb://ballzdeep it says is the location of the drive. Centos is sans GUI. I can't figure out why it doesn't find it and have been searching for a way to discover network hosts but no luck.
Centos 6.3 can't resolve hostname of network drive while others can
networking;centos;samba
May be you should add your network's gateway address as a nameserver to the file /etc/resolv.confand see if it works. Ubuntu sometimes automatically do that, but I'm not sure if CentOS does it.