Accessing Windows shares

I've come across problems accessing Windows shares, specifically, where \\server\share doesn't work but \\ip\share does. I resolved this through SFC (see previous blog post), but deleting the CSC cache is also often suggested, as per:

https://superuser.com/questions/384981/can-access-windows-share-by-ip-or-fqdn-address-but-not-by-hostname/