At 3:03 PM +0100 5/19/04, Mac scribbled:

Remember that %L is the NetBIOS name of the server.  When using port 445
there is no NetBIOS being used, so the client doesn't supply the server
name and Samba can't get %L for you.

(See http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html#id2429318 )



"This parameter is not available when Samba listens on port 445, as clients no longer send this information."


I will say that as someone who is not an expert on the guts of Microsoft Networking and certainly not an expert on either its history of development OR samba's history of development I found this to be extremely confusing and feel that this could be explained a little better.

Attempting to be constructively critical,
...ROMeyn
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