Reconciling SMB-Linux share names with Windows

[mdutch]

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, but the "drive naming" under WinXP clients is different. Look at the samba shares from the server...

[b]root@jam:~/samba# smbclient -L smb[/b]
Domain=[JAM] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.0]
 Sharename       Type      Comment
 ---------       ----      -------
 netlogon        Disk      Network Logon Service
 app             Disk      app samba share

Yet the info displayed in WinXP My Computer is different:

[b]NAME                                                   COMMENT[/b]
 app on 'jam server (Samba, Ubuntu) (smb)' (I:)
 netlogon on 'jam server (Samba, Ubuntu) (smb)' (N:)

It looks to me like the names are getting generated by the old default "server string" variable from orig.smb.conf:

server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)

But in /etc/samba/smb.conf I have reset that string to

server string = "hello"

...which displays correctly under smbclient -L

  Server               Comment
  ---------            -------
  SMB                  hello

Why am I getting share-names under XP derived from a "server string" syntax that's not even in my smb.conf file? I've grep'd "(Samba, Ubuntu)" and it doesn't appear in /etc/smb.conf or any samba configuration file I can find (other than un-used original versions).

I'm stumped!

 

[mdutch]

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 "hello" that I configured in smb.conf propagated to the drive names in My Computer.

So is this a winbind problem?
Is there some way to "force" the names to propagate faster?
Do I need to restart winbind along with /etc/initi.d/samba?
If so, before or after?

 

[smah]

I think it's a Windows issue. It might refresh if you delete the drive mapping and add it again with the net use command.