"netbios name" parameter

miguel medalha medalist at sapo.pt
Thu May 15 13:07:01 UTC 2025


With the obsolescence of NetBIOS, maybe it's time, for the sake of clarity
and precision, to introduce a synonym like "short host name" to the "netbios
name" parameter, which would eventually be phased out in the future.

As it is now, the "netbios name" parameter is the only way to refer to the
short form of the host name, which doesn't seem to be very accurate
nowadays...

Lots of other Samba parameters have synonyms, so why not this one?

Thank you.





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