NetBIOS Aliasing

[David Collier-Brown]

Geoff Silver wrote:
> I ran across an "interesting" situation today, and haven't been able to
> find anything on the web to help.  Samba supports NetBIOS aliases, but is
> it possible to tie the aliased NetBIOS name to a specific smb.conf file
> (or seperate directories?), similar to Apache's VirtualHost directive?

	Sure: see the example in
	http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch04_07.html

> We're running two environments right now (development and testing), and
> would like to have seperate NetBIOS names, but (for the time being) keep
> them on the same server.  However, any folders available on one "server"
> are available on the other.  In the future, we will (probably) split the
> Samba servers to different locations, which is why it would be convenient
> to split this to different "environments".

	That's part of what I do at work.

--dave
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