Thank you all. Clearing out the registry did the trick. I was even able to set the server name to WHATEVER in the smb.conf file and got "WHATEVER" to come through.
Kent -----Original Message----- From: Tom Crummey [mailto:t...@ee.ucl.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:03 AM To: Cross, Kent G (US SSA) Subject: Re: [Samba] Where does Windows get the samba name to put into the Network Share name? Hello, It's in the registry on the PC. Cross, Kent G (US SSA) wrote: > I have upgraded our sun server from samba 3.0.20b to version 3.2.4. If I > type "smb -V" on the sun, I get the proper version number of "Version > 3.2.4". When I map a network drive from my PC to a share named "home1" > on the sun, the PC mount point is named "home1 on 'Samba 3.0.20b > (server)'. I have unmapped all drives and re-mapped them with the same > result. > > > > Where is my PC getting the older version number from? I copied the > private folder, smb.conf, and smbpasswd from the old version to the new > install location. Could it be getting "Samba 3.0.20b" from one of these > files? > > > > Thanks in Advance > > > > > -- Tom. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Tom Crummey, Systems and Network Manager, EMAIL: t...@ee.ucl.ac.uk Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, Roberts Building, TEL: +44 (0)20 7679 3898 Torrington Place, FAX: +44 (0)20 7388 9325 London, UK, WC1E 7JE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba