Oh, on another note, I believe changing the netbios name may cause problems
if you are using the DNS system and not a netbios name server or wins
server. This may only be a problem if you are crossing subnets, but I don't
remember the details. In effect the name needs at least one method of being
resolved to an ip.
Chad
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> From: erik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 8:47 PM
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> Subject: Samba Name
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>
> Hi,
>
> I set up samba on my machine so that other can access some files on my
> machine. Right now, the name of my machine under samba is 's1040' I
> am getting this because I use DHCP to get my hostname and IP. I would
> like to change the name to somethine else, what do I need to add to my
> smb.conf?
>
> TIA,
>
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