NetBios name change

Scott Lovenberg scott.lovenberg at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 11:24:59 MDT 2014


On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:44 AM, <admin at blackpenguin.org> wrote:

> Is the "netbios aliases" directive legacy that is there for historical
> purposes? Or is it something that comes only with samba 4?
>
> It does work, so the issue is resolved. Thanks a lot!
>

Yeah, it's an old setting.  The more correct way to do what you want to do
in Samba-4 is to add a PTR record in DNS that points your alias to your
actual server.

-- 
Peace and Blessings,
-Scott.


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