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

[Richard Sharpe]

At 03:58 PM 1/12/01 +1100, Makis Marmaridis wrote:
>
>
>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.

Oh, Wow. Now I can try it and see if WinNT4.0 will accept connections on
that NetBIOS name ...

>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.
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Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author, Special Edition, Using Samba