I think MS just did us (and themselves) a disservice.

[Makis Marmaridis]

Slightly off topic I know and forgive me... but for the sake of completeness

the registry key to add Netbios Aliases in windows is:

HKEY_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters

The name of the key should be: OptionalNames
it is of type: REG_SZ
and its value is the string of the alias name e.g. "NewAlias"

Note that if you make it a type REG_MULTI_SZ, you can then have multiple
aliases.

I personally tried that on Windows NT 4.0 Server and successfully registered
an alias called "NewAlias" (yes I know it is very original :-)). I did the
registry change, rebooted the server (its only a test box) and then did an

nbtstat -n

which shows the new netbios name as registered.

HTH,

Regards,
Makis.




-----Original Message-----
From: samba-technical-admin at us5.samba.org
[mailto:samba-technical-admin at us5.samba.org]On Behalf Of Anders C.
Thorsen
Sent: Friday, 12 January 2001 6:18 AM
To: 'Martin Kuhne'
Cc: 'Samba Technical'
Subject: RE: I think MS just did us (and themselves) a disservice.


Martin,

Thanks for this valuable information. I tried to search for this key
in the Microsoft Knowledgebase and also the registry of Win2k.

Could you provide some information on where this key is supposed to be?


--Anders

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-technical-admin at us5.samba.org
[mailto:samba-technical-admin at us5.samba.org]On Behalf Of Martin Kuhne
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 11:14 AM
To: Christopher R. Hertel; Richard Sharpe
Cc: Samba Technical
Subject: RE: I think MS just did us (and themselves) a disservice.


There is a reg key called OptionalNames that will let you add more names
for a server. This was never tested so use it at your own risk.

Regards,
Martin Kuhne
Escalation Engineer, Critical Problem Resolution (CPR)
Microsoft GmbH

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher R. Hertel [mailto:crh at nts.umn.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 11:45 PM
To: Richard Sharpe
Cc: Samba Technical
Subject: Re: I think MS just did us (and themselves) a disservice.

[...]

Right, but since Windows boxes do not allow aliases, the only two
options
are the 'real' service name and the *SMBSERVER generic name.  Thus, two
connections max.