On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 14:42 +0000, Gary Roussak wrote: > This morning I placed a post on this mailing list as follows: > > > In Windows Explorer, 'Network Drives' section, the Samba share I've set > up is described as: > > share on 'Samba 3.0.14a-0.4-SUSE (Our_server_IP_Address)' (K:) > > Is there any way of configuring Samba to display something other than > "Samba 3.0.14a-0.4-SUSE (Our_server_IP_Address)" as the Network Drive > description, for example: > > share on 'Our Samba Server' (K:) > I've had a look through man smb.conf but cannot find anything. > > > Thank you to those who replied. You all mentioned "server string". A > couple of you went a little further and accused me of not "reading the > xxxxxxx manual". Thank you for the reminder but I am well aware of the > protocol for using bulletin boards, forums, mailing lists, etc. In fact > I had already read the online Samba guide, and two sets of man pages, > and I had already seen and tried "server string" without success. > > It is also protocol to not be offensive on mailing lists, so perhaps > you could refrain from that in the future. > > My post used the specific words "Network Drive name" for a good reason. > If in Windows XP, you open up Network Places, there are normally four > columns: "Name", "Comments", "Computer" and "Network Location". I can > change the content of the "Computer" column by using "server string" in > smb.conf, but I actually wanted to be able to change the string 'Samba > 3.0.14a-0.4-SUSE (Our_server_IP_Address)' that appears in the "Name" > column. > > To clarify, my question was whether this was changeable from the server > configuration. ---- use 'comment' in each share...
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