What Does Windows Call My Machine?

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John,

This is determined by the "netbios name" in the [global] section of your
smb.conf file.

There is a long and detailed man page for smb.conf; I would suggest
reading it over.

-- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org --

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Hello,
> Ok. I'm to the point where I can mount the hard drives of the Windows
> machines in our office using Samba. I even burned a CD of a directory
> containing files for all the books we have produced. (200 Megabytes). The
> one problem remaining is that the Windows machines can't find my Windows
> partition, or my machine, for that matter. I think I have to find out what
> they call my machine and its shares. But smbclient isn't much help. I
> tried guessing, but apparently unsuccessfully.
> Any help would be appreciated.
> John
>





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