"netbios name" parameter
miguel medalha
medalist at sapo.pt
Thu May 15 13:27:38 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?
In the same manner, for the sake of consistency, maybe the "workgroup"
parameter could have a "domain name" synonym.
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