Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations strongm on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
-
Reconciling SMB-Linux share names with Windows
Okay, today I see my drive names are changed. After some experimenting, in the windows Registry, I found this key:HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComputerDescriptions containing a list of machine names. When I reset the name of my SAMBA server to null, the new string...- mdutch
- Post #2
- Forum: O/S Other general discussion
-
Reconciling SMB-Linux share names with Windows
How do I "fix" the long drive names displayed in local workstations (WinXP) "My Computer", so they agree with the data in my smb.conf file and Linux "smbclient -L" displays? Problem: I'm running XP workstations under a SMB 3.4.0 domain server called JAM. Shares seem to be operating smoothly...- mdutch
- Thread
- Replies: 2
- Forum: O/S Other general discussion
-
winbind issues under Ubuntu
Still having log.winbindd errors every 10-15 seconds... With the help of a contributor, I changed auth methods = sam to auth methods = sam winbind and the error in log.winbindd saf_store: refusing to store 0 length domain or servername! stopped appearing! w00t! But, I'm still...- mdutch
- Post #2
- Forum: O/S Other general discussion
-
winbind issues under Ubuntu
Problem: Trying to finish creation of Samba 3.3.2 domain server on new 9.04 Ubuntu server. Did default Ubuntu installation of LAMP and Samba during installation. Successfully edited smb.conf, built users, server and resources visible in smbclient and in windows test workstation. Can login as...- mdutch
- Thread
- Replies: 1
- Forum: O/S Other general discussion
