Re: samba host name
Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't want to use my host name as my samba name... how can I change samba to use a different name? I didn't find anything in the smb.conf man page. I'm currently loading samba 1.9.16p11 from the inetd.conf file. Take a look at the -n option of nmbd. Another good parameter is -H if you want to set additional names the server should reply to. = man nmbd Torsten -- What a depressingly stupid machine The Restaurant at the End of the Universe PGP Public Key is available -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: samba host name
That doesn't seem to make any difference.. ? oops, either i didn't understand your question, or.. well, netbios name allows you to set any netbios name, you wish (the name, which appears in Net Envioument on Windoze.. if you meant something else?) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: samba host name
no.. its working now.. I changed some other things at the same time which screwed up samba.. everything works now. Thanks -Paul On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Fyodor Yarochkin wrote: That doesn't seem to make any difference.. ? oops, either i didn't understand your question, or.. well, netbios name allows you to set any netbios name, you wish (the name, which appears in Net Envioument on Windoze.. if you meant something else?) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: samba host name
I don't want to use my host name as my samba name... how can I change samba to use a different name? I didn't find anything in the smb.conf man page. add netbios name = YOURNAME in smb.conf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: samba host name
That doesn't seem to make any difference.. ? -Paul On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Fyodor Yarochkin wrote: I don't want to use my host name as my samba name... how can I change samba to use a different name? I didn't find anything in the smb.conf man page. add netbios name = YOURNAME in smb.conf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: samba host name
Paul Miller wrote: That doesn't seem to make any difference.. ? -Paul On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Fyodor Yarochkin wrote: I don't want to use my host name as my samba name... how can I change samba to use a different name? I didn't find anything in the smb.conf man page. add netbios name = YOURNAME in smb.conf nmbd is the guy you need to watch out for. Your Netbios name can be set on the nmbd command line using '-n'. I believe nmbd is launched by inetd. Also, if you changed smb.conf make sure you kill any running nmbd processes (or kill -HUP them if you're really tricky). -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .