I recently had the odd situation where trying to connect to a shared printer on a Windows XP workstation, a member of the AD domain, did not work. It failed to connect. However, connecting using the IP address of the host worked just fine.
DNS entries were all registered correctly for the netbios name, and pinging the host from the server resolved it just fine. No firewalls were blocking file/print sharing ports, file and print sharing was turned on...
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